Operational strategies to the mechanical performance assessment of concrete with the neural network and artificial intelligence

This study was conducted to predicte the resistance properties of concrete with different types of neural networks. The studied data was collected from the database of 127 mixing plans. The input data included the age of concrete in day, the amount of coarse grain, fine grain, cement, water and concrete plasticizer. The target data included compressive strength.

In this research, an attempt has been made to make models for different projects by statistical study of laboratory samples of concrete in order to have a suitable prediction for estimating the resistance properties of concrete. The use of artificial intelligence as a modern method has a special place in engineering sciences. In this research, the data used were first normalized and then the desired data were trained using the Lorenberg Marquardt algorithm.

The evaluation criteria of artificial neural network models were obtained using evaluation and error and the results showed that the use of 10 hidden layers had the highest correlation coefficient and the lowest error. The structure of this network was multi-layered perceptron.

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 The results showed that for the constructed neural network, the value of correlation coefficient, mean root, error square and mean absolute error of the artificial neural network were 0.94 and 1.9, respectively.