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Abstract
During the last four decades, incidence of failure of reinforced concrete structures
has been seen widely for many reasons, such as increasing service loads ,war
accidents, fire and/or durability problems and the economic losses due to such failures
are costly. Nowadays, the size and the form of repair and rehabilitation market are too
large since there has been an increased emphasis on repair and retrofitting of defected
structures over demolition and new construction. An expert system is an interactive
computer-based decision tool that uses both facts and heuristics to solve difficult
decision problems based on knowledge acquired from an expert. To realize these
requirements, a logic programming Prolog language was utilized together with
diagnosis technology. The logic programming language formalizes the domain
knowledge. The expert system Diagnosis of Fire Simple R.C Building Members
Damages (DFSRCMD) developed in this paper is a diagnostic advisory system, which
can be used as an alternative to the human expert, to give technical decisions in
diagnosing fire damages in R.C. structural elements: beams, columns and slabs.
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