Flexural buckling load prediction of aluminium alloy columns using soft computing techniques

This paper presents the application of soft computing techniques for strength prediction of heat-treated extruded aluminium alloy columns failing by flexural buckling. Neural networks (NN) and genetic programming (GP) are presented as soft computing techniques used in the study. Gene-expression programming (GEP) which is an extension to GP is used. The training and test sets for soft computing models are obtained from experimental results available in literature. An algorithm is also developed for the optimal NN model selection process. The proposed NN and GEP models are presented in explicit form to be used in practical applications. The accuracy of the proposed soft computing models are compared with existing codes and are found to be more accurate.

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