Modeling Punching Shear Capacity of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Concrete Slabs: A Comparative Study of Instance-Based and Neural Network Learning

Algorithm 1

Differential Evolution (DE).

Define the objective function ,

Randomly generate an initial population of vectors

Compute population fitness

Identify the best solution in the current population

Define the mutation scale and the crossover probability Cr

Define the maximum iteration

For   to

 For i = 1 to

  Generate 3 random indices , and

  Perform mutation:

  Perform crossover:

  If  

   If  

   End if

  End if

 End For

End For

Return the best solution