A new formulation for longitudinally stiffened webs subjected to patch loading

Abstract This study proposes a new formulation for patch loading longitudinally stiffened webs using genetic programming (GP) for the first time in the literature. The database for the GP formulation is based on extensive experimental results from the literature. The results of the GP based formulation are compared with existing models and design codes. The results indicate that the proposed GP formulation performs quite well compared to existing models and design codes.

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