Application of the optimal BP neural network in bridge health assessment

Neural network has strong ability of pattern recognition. In consideration of the problems of the traditional pure BP neural network, such as subjecting to the randomness of initial weights, slow convergence speed, low efficiency, easy to fall into local extreme value, in this paper we proposing an optimal BP network fusing with the genetic algorithm using in bridge health assessment. The optimized BP network algorithm has a good diagnosis effect, and improves the calculation accuracy and speed of the identification of bridge structure damage.