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Knowledge Base for Structural Design

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The process of structural engineering design involves three distinct steps:

  1. 1)

    Preliminary or conceptual design

  2. 2)

    Analysis

  3. 3)

    Detailed design

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department, University of Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA

    Mukti L. Das

  2. Consultant, Intelligent Systems, DRAVO Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Sitaram V. Josyula

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, M.I.T., 02139, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    D. Sriram

  2. Computational Mechanics Inc, Suite 6200 400 West Cummings Park, 01801, Woburn, MA, USA

    R. Adey

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Das, M.L., Josyula, S.V. (1986). Knowledge Base for Structural Design. In: Sriram, D., Adey, R. (eds) Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Problems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-21626-2_3

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