A Design Generation System for Steel Connections Using XML and Case-Based Reasoning

【Abstract】 Although optimization or heuristics-based approach have been used for the design generation purpose, these methodologies seem to be difficult to apply for design generation of steel connections since their types and patterns are too numerous. In this paper, we propose a design generation methodology using XML (Extensible Markup Language) and Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) and we have developed a prototype system for steel connections. In this approach, a design report is written by XML and stored in a repository as an element of design case database. For a new design situation, this system finds the most similar design case in the repository and generates an appropriate design using the previous case.