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OPERATIONS RESEARCH TECHNIQUES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

  • Inventory with uniform demand with finite rate of replenishment without and with shortage – Buffer stock – Price break.
  •  Queuing Theory – M/M/1 and M/M/C models with infinite and finite waiting space.
  •  Dynamic programming – Principle of optimality – recursive equation approach – application to shortest route, cargo-loading, allocation and production schedule problems.
  •  Sequencing – Johnson’s algorithm – n jobs through 2 machines, n jobs through m machines, 2 jobs through 2 machines.
  •  Replacement problem – Present worth factor – Group replacement – Nonlinear programming – Lagrange’s multipliers method – Kuhn–Tucker’s condition – Quadratic programming – Wolfe’s method.

    Books: 

  •  Taha, H.A., Operations Research- An Introduction, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 2003.
  •  Kantiswarup, Gupta P.K. and Man Mohan, Operations Research, Sultan Chand & sons