A review study of application of artificial intelligence in construction management and composite beams

Yan Cao , Yousef Zandi , Alireza Sadighi Agdas , Qiangfeng Wang , Xueming Qian , Leijie Fu , Karzan Wakil , Abdellatif Selmi , Alibek Issakhov , Angel Roco-Videla

Abstract

This paper is aimed to review the use of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in diverse civil engineering applications such as predicting and evaluating the different parameters of composite beams and shear connectors and determining the compressive strength of concrete. Also, the application of AI methods especially artificial neural network (ANN) in construction engineering and management including prediction and estimation, decision-making, classification or selection, optimization and risk analysis and safety has been thoroughly discussed. Furthermore, the integration of Artificial Neural network (ANN) with other soft computing methods, such as Backpropagation (BP), imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA), support vector regression (SVR), back-propagation neural network (BPNN), Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Multilayer feed forward (MLFF) has been reviewed. It has been reported that the combination of ANN with other intelligence algorithms leads to providing more accurate results. Moreover, the performance of ANN with other soft computing techniques, such as BP, BPNN, SVR, GA, ICA, and MLFF in various fields has been compared and ANN in many cases had superiority over other models.

Key Words

soft computing; artificial neural network; construction management; building materials; composite beams

Address

Yan Cao, Qiangfeng Wang, Xueming Qian and Leijie Fu — School of Mechatronic Engineering, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an, 710021 China
Yousef Zandi — Department of Civil Engineering, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
Alireza Sadighi Agdas — Ghateh Gostar Novin Company, Tabriz, Iran
Karzan Wakil — Department of Computer, College of Science, University of Halabja, Halabja 46018, Kurdistan Region, Iraq; Research Center, Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Sulaimani 46001, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Abdellatif Selmi — Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al‑Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia Civil Engineering Laboratory, Ecole Nationale D'Ingénieurs deTunis (ENIT), B.P. 37, Lbelvédère1002, Tunis, Tunisia
Alibek Issakhov — Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan; Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Angel Roco-Videla — Programa Magister en ciencias químico-biológicas. Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins. Santiago-Chile; Departamento de ingeniería Civil, Facultad de Ingeniería. Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción-Chile

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