A NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH FOR THE ANALYSIS OF LIMIT BEARING CAPACITY OF CONTINUOUS BEAMS DEPENDING ON THE CHARACTER OF THE LOAD

Miloš D Bogdanović, Žarko Petrović, Bojan Milošević, Marina Mijalković, Leonid Stoimenov

DOI Number
https://doi.org/10.2298/FUEE1801115B
First page
115
Last page
130

Abstract


Being a part of civil engineering, limit state analysis represents a structural analysis with a goal of developing efficient methods to directly estimate collapse load for a particular structural model. As a theoretical foundation, limit state analysis uses a set of bound (limit) theorems. Limit theorems are based on the law of conservation of energy and are used for a direct definition of the limit state function for failure by plastic collapse or by inadaptation. This study proposes an artificial neural network (ANN) model in order to approximate the residual bending moment, limit and the incremental failure force of continuous beams. The neural network structure applied here is a radial-Gaussian network architecture (RGIN) and complementary training procedure. This structure is intended to be used for civil engineering purposes and it is demonstrated on the example of the two-span continuous beam loaded in the middle of the span that the limit and the incremental failure force can be obtained using neural network approach with sufficient precision and is especially suitable in analysis when some of the model parameters are variable.

Keywords

Continuous beam; incremental force; limit failure force; neural network; radial-Gaussian network architecture

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