Design Space Exploration of Initial Structural Design Alternatives via Artificial Neural Networks

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2019-09-13

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Yetkin, Ozan
Sorguç, Arzu

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Increasing implementation of digital tools within a design process generates exponentially growing data in each phase, and inevitably, decision making within a design space with increasing complexity will be a great challenge for the designers in the future. Hence, this research aimed to seek potentials of captured data within a design space and solution space of a truss design problem for proposing an initial novel approach to augment capabilities of digital tools by artificial intelligence where designers are allowed to make a wise guess within the initial design space via performance feedbacks from the objective space. Initial structural design and modelling phase of a truss section was selected as a material of this study since decisions within this stage affect the whole process and performance of the end product. As a method, a generic framework was proposed that can help designers to understand the trade-offs between initial structural design alternatives to make informed decisions and optimizations during the initial stage. Finally, the proposed framework was presented in a case study, and future potentials of the research were discussed.

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Design space, Objective space, Structural design, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Optimization

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/70948
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7th Conference on Education-and-Research-in-Computer-Aided-Architectural-Design-in-Europe (eCAADe) / 23rd Conference of the Iberoamerican-Society-Digital-Graphics (SIGraDi) ( SEP 11-13, 2019)

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O. Yetkin and A. Sorguç, “Design Space Exploration of Initial Structural Design Alternatives via Artificial Neural Networks,” presented at the 7th Conference on Education-and-Research-in-Computer-Aided-Architectural-Design-in-Europe (eCAADe) / 23rd Conference of the Iberoamerican-Society-Digital-Graphics (SIGraDi) ( SEP 11-13, 2019), Univ Porto, Fac Architecture, Porto, PORTUGAL, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/70948.