EXPERT SYSTEM OF STRUCTURAL PRELIMINARY DESIGN FOR HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS

In the paper, the essense and contents of structural preliminary design for highrise building s is discussed. An expert system of structural preliminary design for high-rise buildings, HIPRED, is presented. It is an integrated system in which some advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, such as artificial neural networks (ANN) and knowledge base (KB) were incorporated. A fast mechanical analysis method based on a cantilever beam model and a powerful ordinary differential equations solver COLSYS were introduced into the system. The integrated expert system can help engineers find a better high-rise building preliminary scheme.