Bootstrapped Artificial Neural Networks for the seismic analysis of structural systems

• Published in: Structural safety Vol. 67; no. 1; pp. 70 - 84
• Main Authors: Ferrario, E., Pedroni, N., Zio, E., Lopez-Caballero, F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2017; Elsevier
• Subjects: Artificial Neural Network; Bootstrap; Civil Engineering; Confidence intervals; Engineering Sciences; Epistemic uncertainty; Fragility curve; Mechanics; Mechanics of materials; Physics; Risques; Seismic risk; Structure; Confidence intervals; Epistemic uncertainty; Seismic risk; Fragility curve; Artificial Neural Network; Bootstrap; Structure; fragility curve; epistemic uncertainty; bootstrap; confidence intervals; structure; seismic risk

•We look at the behavior of structural systems under the occurrence of seismic events.•We replace the detailed FEMs with fast-running ANNs to estimate the structural response.•We adopt the bootstrap approach to evaluate the approximation introduced by using the ANN.•We estimate the fragility curves...