Rapid Prediction of Long-term Deflections in Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges Through a Neural Network Model

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Sushil Kumar
K. A. Patel
Sandeep Chaudhary
A. K. Nagpal
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[1] Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,Department of Civil Engineering
[2] Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SV-NIT),Department of Civil Engineering
[3] Indian Institute of Technology Indore,Department of Civil Engineering
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International Journal of Steel Structures | 2021年 / 21卷
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Composite bridge; Creep; Deflection; Finite element model; Neural network; Shrinkage;
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This paper proposes a closed-form expression for the rapid prediction of long-term deflections in simply supported steel–concrete composite bridges under the service load. The proposed expression incorporates the flexibility of shear connectors, shear lag effect and time effects (creep and shrinkage) in concrete. The expression has been derived from the trained artificial neural network (ANN). The training, validation and testing data sets for the ANN were produced using the validated finite element (FE) model. The proposed expression has been verified for a number of specimen-bridges and the errors were observed to be within acceptable limits for practical design purposes. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis has been performed using the proposed closed-form expression to study the effect of the input parameters on the output. The proposed expression requires nominal computational effort, compared to the FE analysis and, therefore, can be applied to rapid prediction of deflections for everyday preliminary design.
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