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

Table 5

Comparison between test and ANN-based model results in terms of average absolute percentage error.

Specimen	αf		Lb/db	Error (%)
				Number of nodes in the hidden layer
				1	2	3
FUSD-1 [11]	0.27	2.10	11.30	27.95	19.59	17.13
RC06 [12]	0.33	2.21	9.07	28.50	17.46	18.43
RC07 [12]	0.33	2.21	9.07	4.40	4.57	0.53
RC08 [12]	0.33	2.21	9.07	21.05	10.65	12.33
RC2 [13]	0.27	1.36	18.52	17.14	8.28	10.48
RC4 [13]	0.27	1.36	18.52	17.14	8.28	10.48
LF30 [14]	0.32	1.75	13.16	6.47	2.69	1.23
LF50 [14]	0.32	1.75	13.16	3.85	5.57	1.54
Average				15.81	9.63	9.02