A neural network approach for fire following earthquake loss estimation

Author

Zaghw, A. ; Dong, W.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Structural Eng., Cairo Univ., Giza, Egypt

Volume

5

fYear

1994

fDate

27 Jun-2 Jul 1994

Firstpage

3271

Abstract

Given the great fire conflagrations following the 1906 San Francisco and the 1923 Great Kanto earthquakes, fire-following earthquake has been widely recognized as a major potential component of earthquake loss. However, because of the complexity of the physical phenomena, any reasonable loss estimate must be based on real time simulations, which are often too complicated and time consuming. This paper describes a neural network approach for fire following earthquake loss estimation. The paper also describes how the backpropagation neural network can be modified to use the conjugate gradient method for speeding up the training process

Keywords

backpropagation; conjugate gradient methods; earthquakes; fires; neural nets; backpropagation; conjugate gradient method; fire following earthquake loss estimation; learning process; neural network; Character generation; Civil engineering; Earthquakes; Fires; Gradient methods; Ignition; Neural networks; Predictive models; Seismic measurements; Structural engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Neural Networks, 1994. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence., 1994 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1901-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNN.1994.374760

Filename

374760