Application of Soft Computing Techniques in Mechanical Engineering

Chapter 14 Prediction of fire-resistance rate of CFST columns using gene expression programming

Aishwarya Narang

Center of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation & Management, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India

Ravi Kumar and Amit Kumar Dhiman

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India

DOI: 10.1201/9781003257691-14

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Data collection
3. Research methodology
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusions
6. Nomenclature
7. References

Introduction

As more high-rise contemporary structures are built worldwide, structural fire safety is becoming an increasingly significant part of their design. Concrete-filled steel tubes (CFST) have become more prevalent in recent decades as a result of several advantages [1, 2 and ...