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

Table 4

Relative importance values for different ANN-based models.

Number of nodes in the hidden layer	Transfer function	Relative importance (%)
		αf		Lb/db
One	Logsig	15.1	11.5	73.4
	Tansig	16.3	9.0	74.8
Two	Logsig	22.8	27.2	50.0
	Tansig	23.3	26.7	50.0
Three	Logsig	17.4	21.2	61.5
	Tansig	18.9	20.1	61.0