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Knowledge-based expert system for selection and design of retaining structures

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Date Issued:
1991
Summary:
This thesis describes the development of a microcomputer based prototype expert system, RETAININGEARTH, for the selection and design of earth retaining structures. RETAININGEARTH is an interactive menu-driven system and consists of two modules--the selection module, SELECTWALL and the design module. SELECTWALL is developed using the rule-based M.1 knowledge engineering shell and it makes a choice of the most appropriate retaining structure from a list of ten typical walls. The design module consists of five independent design programs which performs detailed designs of the concrete gravity and cantilever walls, gabions, reinforced earth and sheetpile structures. The SELECTWALL and the design module are linked by the M.1 external code EXT through a control program CALL. All the design procedures are coded using the C programming language.
Title: Knowledge-based expert system for selection and design of retaining structures.
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Name(s): Sreenivasan, Giri.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Arockiasamy, Madasamy, Thesis advisor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1991
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 113 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis describes the development of a microcomputer based prototype expert system, RETAININGEARTH, for the selection and design of earth retaining structures. RETAININGEARTH is an interactive menu-driven system and consists of two modules--the selection module, SELECTWALL and the design module. SELECTWALL is developed using the rule-based M.1 knowledge engineering shell and it makes a choice of the most appropriate retaining structure from a list of ten typical walls. The design module consists of five independent design programs which performs detailed designs of the concrete gravity and cantilever walls, gabions, reinforced earth and sheetpile structures. The SELECTWALL and the design module are linked by the M.1 external code EXT through a control program CALL. All the design procedures are coded using the C programming language.
Identifier: 14718 (digitool), FADT14718 (IID), fau:11509 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.E.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1991.
Subject(s): Retaining walls--Data processing
Structural design--Computer programs
Expert systems (Computer science)
Earthwork--Data processing
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