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ABSTRACT: Structural material should have satisfactory strength that enables a proper load carrying capacity. To
determine the strength characteristics of wooden elements, nondestructive experiments are used to estimate strength
properties which can realistically be determined by destructive experiments only. Artificial neural networks have been
used in this work to estimate the strength characteristics of structural timber by two different approaches, via
approximation and by direct classification.
KEYWORDS: artificial neural networks, strength of structural timber, grade determining parameters, indicating
properties
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Network geometry refers to the number of input and
output neurons, to the number of hidden layers and to the
number of neurons in each hidden layer. The optimal
geometry of networks is usually not known in advance.