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Computers and Concrete Volume 37, Number 5, May 2026 (Special Issue) pages 859-876 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/cac.2026.37.5.859 |
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AI based surrogate prediction model of fire endurance time for RC frame structure |
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HyunKyoung Kim, Ju-young Hwang
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| Abstract | ||
| Accurate prediction of fire-damaged RC structural behavior is essential for safety assessment; however, traditional numerical analysis becomes computationally intensive due to complex thermo-mechanical responses including non-mechanical strains at elevated temperatures. This study develops ML surrogate models (NN, XGB, LGBM) to predict RC member fire endurance time using a 4.37 million-point dataset generated from P-M diagrams obtained via high-fidelity numerical analyses. Tree-based ensembles outperformed NN in large-data regimes (test error <1%, geometric fitness >96%), providing superior interpretability through feature importance and monotonic constraints. Specifically, by defining the input conditions through a flexible 7-variable framework (B, H, BN, HN, M, P, R), this study enables the direct generation of P-M interaction diagrams under any arbitrary loading scenarios. Frame-level validation comparing predictive model and numerical analysis results on a 1-bay, 1-story RC frame confirmed applicability of proposed model with consistent column failure patterns, enabling very rapid predictions showing similar trends. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| extreme gradient boosting (XGB); fire-damaged RC; fire analysis; fire endurance time; neural network (NN) | ||
| Address | ||
| HyunKyoung Kim: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea Ju-young Hwang: Department of Civil Engineering, Dong-Eui University, Busan 47340, Republic of Korea | ||