Investigation of ANN Architecture for Predicting Load-Carrying Capacity of Castellated Steel Beams

Table 2

Summary of different ANN characteristics and investigation parameters in this study.

Parameter	Parameter	Description
Fix	Neurons in input layer	9
	Neurons in output layer	1
	Hidden layer activation function	Sigmoid
	Output layer activation function	Linear
	Cost function	Mean Square Error (MSE)
	Number of epochs	1000
	Number of simulations	500
	Training algorithm	Gradient descent
Varying	Number of hidden layers	Varying from 1 to 2
	Neurons in hidden layer	Varying from 1 to 15