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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 27
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND OBJECT ORIENTED APPROACHES TO STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping and M. Papadrakakis
Paper III.7

The Use of an Object Oriented Language in the Development of Structural Engineering Programmes

D.A. Shepherd* and I.D. Lefas#

*Balfour Beatty Projects and Engineering Limited, Marlowe, Sidcup, Kent, England
#formerly Balfour Beatty, now R. Benaim & Associates Asia, Hong Kong

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
D.A. Shepherd, I.D. Lefas, "The Use of an Object Oriented Language in the Development of Structural Engineering Programmes", in B.H.V. Topping, M. Papadrakakis, (Editors), "Artificial Intelligence and Object Oriented Approaches to Structural Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 153-157, 1994. doi:10.4203/ccp.27.3.7
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the development of structural Engineering programmes based on the use of an object oriented language. Relevant features of the programming language and the framework adopted are outlined and discussed. Applications to a simple and a more sophisticated structural analysis problem are demonstrated.

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