Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to address the following questions:
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• Can expert systems be integrated into design procedures of a structural design office at reasonable cost, in a short period of time and in a way that can be accepted by the practising engineer?
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• How usefulness can be the adoption of suitable expert systems?
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• What procedures are most suited to reach these goals?
For this purpose, the experience accumulated by the authors in recent years is exposed from the point of view of the structural engineer rather than from the one of the Al scientist. The key to the success seems to lie in the following points:
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• An adequate data base must be collected concerning existing structures according to a suitable format .
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• Knowledge should be extracted from this data base using as far as possible an automatic self instructing procedure based on neural networks
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• The inference procedure should as far as possible imitate the way of reasoning of the structural engineer.
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• The system should be integrated in a CAD environment.
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Cauvin, A., Passera, R., Stagnitto, G. (1998). Integration of expert systems in a structural design office. In: Smith, I. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Structural Engineering. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1454. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0030466
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