Optimizing the cost of asphalt road pavement using particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) and compare it with the Shell method

Subject Areas : Journal of New Applied and Computational Findings in Mechanical Systems

Mansour Tohidi ¹ , Navid Khayat ² , Abdoulrasoul Telvari ³

1 - Department of Civil Engineering. Ahvaz Branch. Islamic Azad University. Ahvaz. Iran
2 - Department of Civil Engineering, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
3 - Department of Civil Engineering. Ahvaz Branch. Islamic Azad University. Ahvaz. Iran

Received: 2022-03-25 Accepted : 2022-06-19 Published : 2022-05-22

Keywords: asphalt pavement, Shell Pavement Design, AASHTO design method, particle swarm optimization(PSO), optimal pavement design,

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