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Abstract

Nonlinear dynamic analyses of reinforced concrete (RC) frame buildings require the use of effective stiffness of members to capture the effect of cracked section stiffness. In the design codes and practices, the effective stiffness of RC sections is given as an empirical fraction of the gross stiffness. However, a more precise estimation of the effective stiffness is important as it affects the distribution of forces and various demands and response parameters in nonlinear dynamic analyses. In this study, an evolutionary computation method called gene expression programming (GEP) was used to predict the effective stiffness ratios of RC columns. Constitutive relationships were obtained by correlating the effective stiffness ratio with the four mechanical and geometrical parameters. The model was developed using a database of 226 samples of nonlinear dynamic analysis results collected from another study by the author. Subsequent parametric and sensitivity analyses were performed and the trends of the results were confirmed. The results indicate that the GEP model provides precise estimations of the effective stiffness ratios of the RC frames.

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Title
A Prediction Model for the Calculation of Effective Stiffness Ratios of Reinforced Concrete Columns
Author
Das, Sourav 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Mansouri, Iman 2 ; Choudhury, Satyabrata 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Gandomi, Amir H 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Jong Wan Hu 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam 788010, India; [email protected] (S.D.); [email protected] (S.C.) 
 Department of Civil Engineering, Birjand University of Technology, Birjand 97175-569, Iran; [email protected] 
 Faculty of Engineering & IT, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo 2007, Australia; [email protected] 
 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea; Incheon Disaster Prevention Research Center, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Korea 
First page
1792
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
19961944
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2548812947
Copyright
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.