Prediction of the transfer length of prestressing strands with neural networks

Funding for this study were received from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and ERDF (Research Project BIA2006-05521, BIA2009-12722, and BIA2011-23602) and from the Spanish Ministry of Education (TIN2009-14205-C04-03 and Consolider Ingenio 2010 CSD2007-00018), as well as the European Community with the FEDER funds.

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