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Advances in Artificial Neural Systems
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 786535, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/786535
Research Article
A New Procedure for Damage Assessment of Prestressed Concrete Beams Using Artificial Neural Network
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Annamalai University, Tamilnadu, Annamalainagar 608 002, India
Received 31 May 2011; Revised 24 August 2011; Accepted 24 August 2011
Academic Editor: Wilson Wang
Copyright © 2011 K. Sumangala and C. Antony Jeyasehar. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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