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Structural Engineering and Mechanics Volume 52, Number 4, November25 2014 , pages 739-753 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2014.52.4.739 |
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Optimal design of plane frame structures using artificial neural networks and ratio variables |
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Chin-Sheng Kao and I-Cheng Yeh
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| Abstract | ||
| There have been many packages that can be employed to analyze plane frames. However, because most structural analysis packages suffer from closeness of system, it is very difficult to integrate it with an optimization package. To overcome the difficulty, we proposed a possible alternative, DAMDO, which integrate Design, Analysis, Modeling, Definition, and Optimization phases into an integrative environment. The DAMDO methodology employs neural networks to integrate structural analysis package and optimization package so as not to need directly to integrate these two packages. The key problem of the DAMDO approach is how to generate a set of reasonable random designs in the first phase. According to the characteristics of optimized plane frames, we proposed the ratio variable approach to generate them. The empirical results show that the ratio variable approach can greatly improve the accuracy of the neural networks, and the plane frame optimization problems can be solved by the DAMDO methodology. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| artificial neural networks; optimization; plane frame; ratio variable | ||
| Address | ||
| Chin-Sheng Kao and I-Cheng Yeh: Department of Civil Engineering, Tamkang University, No.151, Yingzhuan-ro, Tamsui-gu, New Taipei City, Taiwan,The Republic of China | ||