Energy absorption evaluation of reinforced concrete beams under various loading rates based on particle swarm optimization technique

• Main Authors: Hanoon, Ammar Nasiri, Jaafar, Mohd Saleh, Hejazi, Farzad, Abd Aziz, Farah Nora Aznieta
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2017
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/61715/1/Energy%20absorption%20evaluation%20of%20reinforced%20concrete%20beams%20.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/61715/; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0305215X.2016.1256729

This study proposes an energy absorption model for predicting the effect of loading rates, concrete compressive strength, shear span-to-depth ratio, and longitudinal and transverse reinforcement ratio of reinforced concrete (RC) beams using the particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique. This techn...