Design of beam-columns using artificial neural networks

Abstract EN

In this paper, manual design of beam-columns, based on the procedure adopted by American society of steel construction, is described.

An attempt has been taken to apply artificial neural network to the design of steel beam-columns of hot-rolled shapes.

For this purpose, a set of data have been generated using the software package staad pro, and then used in training and testing the neural network.

The results showed that artificial neural network after successful learning could specify the proper sections with relatively high accuracy.