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

Table 3

Constants C₁ through C₁₆.

Number of nodes in the hidden layer	One		Two		Three
Transfer function	Logsig	Tansig	Logsig	Tansig	Logsig	Tansig
C1	0.84	0.94	1.04	0.9	0.82	0.88
C2	0.2	0.1	−0.14	0.12	0.21	−0.02
C3	−48.74	−28.1	−0.17	−0.13	−0.08	−0.07
C4	−3.84	−1.6	61.74	−14.17	0.06	−0.03
C5	2.19	1.2	8.97	−0.38	−38.94	80.18
C6	−3.22	−2.41	−0.82	2.21	0.11	20.92
C7	—	—	−30.94	−22.01	4.19	−0.28
C8	—	—	66.53	13.75	−39.34	−65.49
C9	—	—	2.69	1.69	61.44	37.51
C10	—	—	−3.05	−0.18	10.83	0.70
C11	—	—	10.76	−6.55	−0.32	−2.76
C12	—	—	—	—	−38.25	20.14
C13	—	—	—	—	−77.27	44.12
C14	—	—	—	—	−4.93	1.04
C15	—	—	—	—	4.90	−1.52
C16	—	—	—	—	−6.77	−2.89