Artificial Intelligence and Applications in Structural and Material Engineering

Abstract

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) has become a vital tool attributed to Structural and Material Engineering and developed the way engineers approach design analysis and optimization. This paper explores the principal models of ML and DL, such as the generative adversarial network (GAN) and the artificial neural networks (ANN) and, and discusses their impacts on the applications of material design, structure damage detection (SDD), and archtecture design. It indicates that the high-quality of database is the essential key to training the model. Thus, the data preprocessing is required for expanding the data source and improving the quality of data. In material design process, ML and DL models reduce the time to predict the properties of construction materials, which makes SDD realistic as well. For architecture design, GAN is used to generate image data, such as drawing of the floor plan and this could be helpful to reduce the labor resources. However, some challenges of ML and DL are found while applying the algorithms to real-life applications. For example, sufficient data is needed to train the DL models and the ethic aspect is also a concern when thinking of AI.