NEUROSLAB – neural network system for horizontal formwork selection

This paper presents an overview of the neural network technique as a tool for concrete formwork selection. The paper discusses the development and the implementation of a neural network system, NEUROSLAB, for the selection of horizontal formwork systems. A rule-based expert system for the selection of horizontal systems, SLABFORM, was used as the basis for the development of NEUROSLAB. A training set of 202 cases was used to train the network. The network adequately learned the training examples with an average training error of 0.025. A set of 50 cases was used to test the generalization ability of the system. The network was able to accurately select the appropriate horizontal formwork system with an average testing error of 0.057. The ability of the network to deal with noisy data was also tested. Up to 50% noise was added to the data and introduced to the network. The results showed that the network presented could accurately identify the appropriate horizontal formwork system at high level of noise. ...

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