%0 Journal Article %T An Equation to Determine the Ultimate Flexural Load of RC Beams Strengthened with CFRP Laminates %J Journal of Soft Computing in Civil Engineering %I Pouyan Press %Z 2588-2872 %A Farahnaki, Reza %A Azimi, Alla %D 2018 %\ 10/01/2018 %V 2 %N 4 %P 86-95 %! An Equation to Determine the Ultimate Flexural Load of RC Beams Strengthened with CFRP Laminates %K concrete beam %K Flexural load %K FRP %K strengthening %R 10.22115/scce.2018.136500.1076 %X In this paper, a new relationship is presented for determining the ultimate flexural load of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with CFRP laminates. An artificial neural network with a suitable performance was used to estimate this equation. First, a collection of laboratory results including 83 data was collected from valid references. This database was then divided into three groups of 51, 16, and 16, which were used to train, validation, and test the proposed equation, respectively. The final model had eleven inputs including concrete compressive strength, width of beam, effective depth, area of tension reinforcement, area of compression reinforcement, yield strength of steel, modulus of elasticity of steel, modulus of elasticity of CFRP sheet, width of CFRP sheet, total thickness of CFRP sheets and, length of CFRP sheet, which were applied to the network to determine the ultimate flexural load as the output of the model. The obtained results from the proposed relationship showed that it was able to use as a predictive equation for the considered target. %U https://www.jsoftcivil.com/article_76643_8fc1d578e3345acfa1f8cb7371a5f6c3.pdf