Constructing a personalized AI assistant for shear wall layout using Stable Diffusion
This addresses a domain-specific problem for structural engineers by providing a faster and more data-efficient design tool, though it appears incremental as it adapts existing methods to a new application.
The paper tackles the slow and data-intensive process of shear wall layout design in high-rise buildings by proposing a personalized AI assistant based on Stable Diffusion, which achieves good generative results as proven through testing.
Shear wall structures are widely used in high-rise residential buildings, and the layout of shear walls requires many years of design experience and iterative trial and error. Currently, there are methods based on heuristic algorithms, but they generate results too slowly. Those based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can only generate single arrangements and require large amounts of training data. At present, Stable Diffusion is being widely used, and by using the Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) method to fine-tune large models with small amounts of data, good generative results can be achieved. Therefore, this paper proposes a personalized AI assistant for shear wall layout based on Stable Diffusion, which has been proven to produce good generative results through testing.