Numerical experimentation for the optimal design of reinforced rectangular concrete beams for singly reinforced sections

Development of Shear Capacity Equations for Rectangular Reinforced Concrete Beams

The problem of shear is not yet fully understood due to involvement of number of parameters. Designers are extra careful about shear, especially in beams and consequently higher safety factors are used in shear design. Several equations are available in literature to determine the shear capacity of beams, i.e. ACI equation, Zsutty equation and KIM & White equation. To verify the application of ...

Application of the Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System for Optimal Design of Reinforced Concrete Beams

Using a genetic algorithm owing to high nonlinearity of constraints, this paper first works on the optimal design of two-span continuous singly reinforced concrete beams. Given conditions are the span, dead and live loads, compressive strength of concrete and yield strength of steel; design variables are the width and effective depth of the continuous beam and steel ratios for positive and nega...

Genetically Optimized Artificial Neural Network Based Optimum Design of Singly and Doubly Reinforced Concrete Beams

Optimum design of singly and doubly reinforced beams with uniformly distributed and concentrated load has been done by incorporating actual self weight of beam, parabolic stress block, moment-equilibrium and serviceability constraints besides other constraints. Also, this design expertise has been incorporated into a genetically optimized artificial neural network based on steepest descent, ada...

Behavior of Concrete Beams Reinforced Steel Plates

Design Optimization of Reinforced Concrete Beams Using Artificial Neural Network

–– This paper presents an Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) model for the cost optimization of simply supported beams designed according to the requirements of the ACI 318-08 code. The model formulation includes the cost of concrete, the cost of reinforcement and the cost of formwork. A simply supported beam was designed adopting variable cross sections, in order to demonstrate the model capabil...