RESEARCH PROPOSAL

ANALYSING THE POSSIBILITY OF USING

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR STRUCTURAL
OPTIMIZATION OF CONTAINER HOMES.
MSc. CIVIL ENGINEERING (STRUCTURAL)
Presented by Medongou Tejiogho Edmond Didier

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INSTITUTE FOR BASIC SCIENCES,
TECHNOLOGY, AND INNOVATION
November 23, 2023.
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1.BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Generative AI is primarily used for designing residential building structures such as
shear walls, frames, and frame-brace structures. CNNs and GNNs are the primary
generative AI technologies used. Researchers have further improved the network
architecture by incorporating GANs and GNNs to learn mechanical mechanisms and
empirical rules. Attention and LSTM technologies have also been used in the design-
generation process

Generative AI design for building structures

Wenjie Liao, Xinzheng Lu, Yifan Fei, Yi Gu, Yuli Huang

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2. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
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Traditionally, engineers rely on manual

calculations, ordinary computer aided design
and experience to create safe and efficient
designs.
As such, traditional structural designs tend to be
too conservative and as such costly. They are also
time consuming.
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3. MAIN OBJECTIVE

Main Objective
Reproduce the structural design of an existing G+1
container home with an accuracy of over 95% with
the use of an Artificial intelligence model

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3.SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

Objective 1 Objective 2

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3.SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

Objective 3

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4. JUSTIFICATION
AI design of reinforced concrete buildings complies with design
standards and is comparable to an engineer’s design. Moreover, it
consumes the same quantity of material as the engineer’s design. In
contrast, AI uses 90% less time than engineers significantly

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5.SCOPE
The study will focus on :

Developing a Generative Adversarial network (GAN) to train the model in

recognizing structural design patterns, learn rules and experiences from
existing designs
Inference generation for new design

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REFERENCES

Application of GAN in the structural design of buildings,

Shengquan Nu from Qinghua University, Beijing, China.

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