Optimizing shapes of post-tensioning functions instead of the cable forces decreases the number of the design variables.
The Genetic Algorithm (GA), as a global search technique, is utilized to optimize shapes of post-tensioning functions to achieve minimum vertical deflections along the bridge deck.
MUCH thought is being given these days to the shape of post-war politics in Iraq.
There is also a lack of consensus within the TNC on the political shape of post-Gaddafi Libya.
Yet even in its truncated form, does Hughes's work deserve such lavish treatment?Hughes re-defined the shape of post-war English poetry in 1957 with the publication of "The Hawk in the Rain", the first of many books.
But to the denizens of Westminster, an infinitely more intriguing issue is the shape of post-war politics in Britain.Tony Blair's most fervent admirers and his fiercest critics agree on at least one thing: the prime minister is risking everything.
Through the analysis of examples, this research will help to systemize different spatial relations in order to determine basic guidelines for future shaping of post-mining landscapes.
The saw-tooth shape of post-installation shortening can be modified by curve fitting and the modified shortenings show good agreement with the exact values.
The latter is utilized to optimize the shape of post-tensioning forces as well as the geometry of the cable system to achieve minimum deflections, lowest steel quantity involved in the cable system and maximum performance of the cables under live load configurations.
Acknowledging the urban consequences as being conditioned by the intense interplay between planning institutions and practice, and urban management and governance, this paper shows how the continued presence of colonial planning principles in the shaping of post-colonial planning practices may contribute to present-day urban consequences in Dar es Salaam.
Importantly, exponentially decaying functions mimic the shape of post-synaptic currents reasonably well, and hence, the detected patterns resemble input currents received by a potential post-synaptic neuron [15].
