Abstract

Conventional evaluation of the overall mechanical properties and ultimate flexural capacity of prestressed hollow core slabs after a fire exposure depends heavily on the inversion of fire scene temperature. To avoid this drawback, this paper presents a new methodology which combines a generalized regression neural network (GRNN) with conventional non-destructive testing technology. Thereby, a neural network model for predicting the material performance parameters after fire exposure is obtained based on conventional testing indices. A hollow core slab bridge is used as an example, and the applicability of the trained network model is confirmed using numerical simulation and a field failure test. Results show that the overall relative error of GRNN in predicting the key performance parameters of the bridge after fire exposure is less than 10%. Further, because of the good thermal inertia of the concrete, the relative error in predicting the material performance parameters of steel after a fire is less than 5%. Moreover, the ultimate flexural capacity of the prestressed hollow core slab after a fire can be accurately evaluated by feeding the material performance parameters predicted by GRNN neural network into the finite element (FE) model.

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