Planning Tunnel Construction Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Vargas, Juan P ^a   Koppe, Jair C ^b   Perez, Sebastian ^a   Hurtado, Juan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; EXCAVATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAILROAD TUNNELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION); TUNNELS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECTS; COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHM; CONSTRUCTION TIME; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD; SIMULATION ALGORITHMS; TUNNEL CONSTRUCTION; UNDERGROUND EXCAVATION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84944187347     PISSN: 1024123X     EISSN: 15635147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/797953     Document Type: Article

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