A. Mukherjee et Jm. Deshpande, APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN STRUCTURAL DESIGN EXPERT-SYSTEMS, Computers & structures, 54(3), 1995, pp. 367-375
The application of artificial neural networks (ANN) in the preliminary
design of structures has been proposed. The use of an artificial neur
al network has been made to arrive at an initial or the preliminary de
sign model. The architecture uses this preliminary design as an intuit
ive basis for further processing of the initial model in an integrated
environment. Various considerations and the steps in the development
of ANN for the design expert system are illustrated with an example of
optimal design of RC beams.