Flexural Strength Prediction of Welded Flange Plate Connections Based on Slenderness Ratios of Beam Elements Using ANN

Table 2

Performance statistics for strength’s predicted model.

Number of nodes in the hidden layer	Transfer function	Performance measures
		MSE	MAE	Err%	R
One	Logsig	0.0033	0.0469	5.4	0.916
	Tansig	0.0032	0.0460	5.3	0.917
Two	Logsig	0.0018	0.0334	3.7	0.970
	Tansig	0.0011	0.0264	3.1	0.969
Three	Logsig	0.0010	0.0248	2.9	0.984
	Tansig	0.0010	0.0230	2.8	0.984