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Steel and Composite Structures
  Volume 39, Number 3, May10 2021 , pages 319-335
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/scs.2021.39.3.319
 


Improving the axial compression capacity prediction of elliptical CFST columns using a hybrid ANN-IP model
Viet-Linh Tran, Yun Jang and Seung-Eock Kim

 
Abstract
    This study proposes a new and highly-accurate artificial intelligence model, namely ANN-IP, which combines an interior-point (IP) algorithm and artificial neural network (ANN), to improve the axial compression capacity prediction of elliptical concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) columns. For this purpose, 145 tests of elliptical CFST columns extracted from the literature are used to develop the ANN-IP model. In this regard, axial compression capacity is considered as a function of the column length, the major axis diameter, the minor axis diameter, the thickness of the steel tube, the yield strength of the steel tube, and the compressive strength of concrete. The performance of the ANN-IP model is compared with the ANN-LM model, which uses the robust Levenberg–Marquardt (LM) algorithm to train the ANN model. The comparative results show that the ANN-IP model obtains more magnificent precision (R^2 = 0.983, RMSE = 59.963 kN, a20-index = 0.979) than the ANN-LM model (R^2 = 0.938, RMSE = 116.634 kN, a20-index = 0.890). Finally, a new Graphical User Interface (GUI) tool is developed to use the ANN-IP model for the practical design. In conclusion, this study reveals that the proposed ANN-IP model can properly predict the axial compression capacity of elliptical CFST columns and eliminate the need for conducting costly experiments to some extent.
 
Key Words
    artificial neural network, axial compression capacity, elliptical concrete-filled steel tubular column, interior-point algorithm, graphical user interface
 
Address
Viet-Linh Tran: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sejong University, 98 Gunja-Dong, Gwangjin-Gu, Seoul 05006, South Korea;
Department of Civil Engineering, Vinh University, Vinh 461010, Vietnam
Yun Jang: Department of Computer Engineering, Sejong University 98 Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05006, South Korea
Seung-Eock Kim: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sejong University, 98 Gunja-Dong, Gwangjin-Gu, Seoul 05006, South Korea
 

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