Liquid retaining structures are more vulnerable to corrosion problems & thus have stringent requirements against serviceability limit state of crack. The design procedures of these structures require significant empirical inputs from specialists. With the recent advent of artificial intelligence technology a coupled knowledge-based system can handle both the symbolic knowledge processing based on engineering heuristics in the preliminary synthesis stage & the extensive numerical crunching involved in the detailed structural analysis stage. This book presents a prototype coupled knowledge-based system for the design of liquid retaining structures...