Bearing Capacity of Concrete Filled Square Steel Tubular Columns Based on Neural Network

Abstract:

Steel tube and filled concrete of square CFT (concrete filled steel tubular structures) columns under eccentric load are in complicated stress condition, the influence of every kind of factors on mechanics performance is difficult to ascertain accurately. On the other hand, neural network is good at obtaining the relationship between input and output variables by self-studying, self-organizing, self-adapting and nonlinear mapping. Therefore, it is suitable that use neural network to calculating the bearing capacity of square CFT columns. In this paper a four-layer back-propagation model of network is trained according to experimental data of square CFT columns under eccentric load, a neural network model for eccentrically loaded square CFT columns is set up. The model is verified by six groups of experimental data, the results show the predicted values are in good agreement with test values, precision in calculation is good enough to be used as an auxiliary method for structure design.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 502)
• Pages: 193-197
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.502.193
• Online since: April 2012
• Authors: Hai Jun Wang, Hua Bei Zhu, Hua Wei
• Keywords: Bearing Capacity, Concrete Filled Square Steel Tubular Columns, Neural Network (NN), Nonlinear Mapping Model

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