Abstract

The shear strength of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforced concrete beams is often given a large safety margin by current construction requirements. Six characteristics are utilized as inputs to compute the shear strength of FRP-reinforced concrete beams. This study uses 198 samples from the literature to predict the shear strength of 139 training samples and 59 testing samples. Additionally, the ANN structure is optimized with the firefly algorithm. The FA-ANN model is also compared to ACI-440, CSA-S806, and BISE-99 codes, and the optimized model by Nehdi et al. Findings show that regarding the shear strength of FRP-reinforced concrete beams, the firefly algorithm-optimized model performs better than the other four models. Concerning accuracy, the coefficient of correlation, R2, was calculated as 0.961, while the average absolute error (AAE) is 0.22 for the shear strength of FRP-reinforced beams.

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