Estimating Fracture Eenergy of Concrete Using Artificial Neural Networks

Authors

1 Faculty of Civil Engineering, Sahand University of Technology

2 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Sahand University of Technology

3 Mining Engineering, Sahand University of Technology

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