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Structural Engineering and Mechanics Volume 51, Number 6, September25 2014 , pages 989-1003 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2014.51.6.989 |
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Minimization of differential column shortening and sequential analysis of RC 3D-frames using ANN |
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Wilfried W. Njomo and Giray Ozay
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| Abstract | ||
| In the preliminary design stage of an RC 3D-frame, repeated sequential analyses to determine optimal members\' sizes and the investigation of the parameters required to minimize the differential column shortening are computational effort consuming, especially when considering various types of loads such as dead load, temperature action, time dependent effects, construction and live loads. Because the desired accuracy at this stage does not justify such luxury, two backpropagation feedforward artificial neural networks have been proposed in order to approximate this information. Instead of using a commercial software package, many references providing advanced principles have been considered to code a program and generate these neural networks. The first one predicts the typical amount of time between two phases, needed to achieve the minimum maximorum differential column shortening. The other network aims to prognosticate sequential analysis results from those of the simultaneous analysis. After the training stages, testing procedures have been carried out in order to ensure the generalization ability of these respective systems. Numerical cases are studied in order to find out how good these ANN match with the sequential finite element analysis. Comparison reveals an acceptable fit, enabling these systems to be safely used in the preliminary design stage. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| sequential analysis; differential column shortening; optimization; minimization; finite element analysis; 3D-frame; artificial neural network | ||
| Address | ||
| Wilfried W. Njomo : Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Giray Ozay : Department of Civil Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, via Mersin 10, Turkey | ||