About the Book: Applications of Soft Computing Techniques in Civil Engineering
The field of engineering is a creative one. The problems encountered in this
field are generally unstructured and imprecise and tackled by intuitions and
past experiences of a designer. The conventional methods of computing, relying
on analytical or empirical relations, become time consuming when dealing with
real-life problems. To study, model and analyse such problems, approximate
computer-based soft computing techniques, inspired by the reasoning, intuition,
logic and wisdom possessed by human beings, are employed.This book is an attempt
to put together knowledge and experience of soft computing techniques in civil
engineering. The principal concern of the