scholarly journals Compressive Strength Prediction via Gene Expression Programming (GEP) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for Concrete Containing RCA

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 324
Author(s):  
Ayaz Ahmad ◽  
Krisada Chaiyasarn ◽  
Furqan Farooq ◽  
Waqas Ahmad ◽  
Suniti Suparp ◽  
...  

To minimize the environmental risks and for sustainable development, the utilization of recycled aggregate (RA) is gaining popularity all over the world. The use of recycled coarse aggregate (RCA) in concrete is an effective way to minimize environmental pollution. RCA does not gain more attraction because of the availability of adhered mortar on its surface, which poses a harmful effect on the properties of concrete. However, a suitable mix design for RCA enables it to reach the targeted strength and be applicable for a wide range of construction projects. The targeted strength achievement from the proposed mix design at a laboratory is also a time-consuming task, which may cause a delay in the construction work. To overcome this flaw, the application of supervised machine learning (ML) algorithms, gene expression programming (GEP), and artificial neural network (ANN) was employed in this study to predict the compressive strength of RCA-based concrete. The linear coefficient correlation (R2), mean absolute error (MAE), mean square error (MSE), and root mean square error (RMSE) were evaluated to investigate the performance of the models. The k-fold cross-validation method was also adopted for the confirmation of the model’s performance. In comparison, the GEP model was more effective in terms of prediction by giving a higher correlation (R2) value of 0.95 as compared to ANN, which gave a value of R2 equal to 0.92. In addition, a sensitivity analysis was conducted to know about the contribution level of each parameter used to run the models. Moreover, the increment in data points and the use of other supervised ML approaches like boosting, gradient boosting, and bagging to forecast the compressive strength, would give a better response.

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (16) ◽  
pp. 4518
Author(s):  
Hongwei Song ◽  
Ayaz Ahmad ◽  
Krzysztof Adam Ostrowski ◽  
Marta Dudek

In a fast-growing population of the world and regarding meeting consumer’s requirements, solid waste landfills will continue receiving a substantial amount of waste. The utilization of solid waste materials in concrete has gained the attention of the researchers. Ceramic waste powder (CWP) is considered to be one of the most harmful wastes for the environment, which may cause water, soil, and air pollution. The aim of this study was comprised of two phases. Phase one was based on the characterization of CWP with respect to its composition, material testing (coarse aggregate, fine aggregate, cement,) and evaluation of concrete properties both in fresh and hardened states (slump, 28 days compressive strength, and dry density). Concrete mixes were prepared in order to evaluate the compressive strength (CS) of the control mix, with partial replacement of the cement with CWP of 10 and 20% by mass of cement and 60 prepared mixes. However, phase two was based on the application of the artificial neural network (ANN) and decision tree (DT) approaches, which were used to predict the CS of concrete. The linear coefficient correlation (R2) value from the ANN model indicates better performance of the model. Moreover, the statistical check and k-fold cross validation methods were also applied for the performance confirmation of the model. The mean absolute error (MAE), mean square error (MSE), and root mean square error (RMSE) were evaluated to confirm the model’s precision.


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2A) ◽  
pp. 255-264
Author(s):  
Hanan A. R. Akkar ◽  
Sameem A. Salman

Computer vision and image processing are extremely necessary for medical pictures analysis. During this paper, a method of Bio-inspired Artificial Intelligent (AI) optimization supported by an artificial neural network (ANN) has been widely used to detect pictures of skin carcinoma. A Moth Flame Optimization (MFO) is utilized to educate the artificial neural network (ANN). A different feature is an extract to train the classifier. The comparison has been formed with the projected sample and two Artificial Intelligent optimizations, primarily based on classifier especially with, ANN-ACO (ANN training with Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)) and ANN-PSO (training ANN with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)). The results were assessed using a variety of overall performance measurements to measure indicators such as Average Rate of Detection (ARD), Average Mean Square error (AMSTR) obtained from training, Average Mean Square error (AMSTE) obtained for testing the trained network, the Average Effective Processing Time (AEPT) in seconds, and the Average Effective Iteration Number (AEIN). Experimental results clearly show the superiority of the proposed (ANN-MFO) model with different features.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-95
Author(s):  
Henny Dwi Bhakti

Kualitas mahasiswa merupakan bagian penting dalam institusi pendidikan. Universitas perlu melakukan evaluasi performa mahasiswa untuk menjaga kualitas mahasiswa. Salah satu variabel indikator performa mahasiswa adalah informasi tentang lama masa studi mahasiswa. Prediksi lama masa studi dibutuhkan pihak manajemen Universitas dalam menentukan kebijakan preventif terkait pencegahan dini kasus Drop Out (DO). Artificial Neural Network (ANN) adalah suatu metode yang meniru jaringan syaraf biologis untuk mempelajari sesuatu. Salah satu implementasi ANN yang banyak digunakan adalah untuk memprediksi. Penelitian ini melakukan prediksi masa studi mahasiswa dengan menggunakan ANN dengan metode pembelajaran backpropagation. Variabel yang digunakan adalah nilai Indeks Prestasi Semester (IPS) 4 semester awal mahasiswa. Data dibagi menjadi data latih dan data uji. Dari hasil pelatihan dan pengujian didapatkan nilai Mean Square Error (MSE) dan Koefisien Relasi (R). MSE digunakan untuk melihat kesalahan rata-rata antara output jaringan dengan target. Nilai R digunakan untuk melihat kuat atau tidaknya hubungan linier antara 2 variabel. Nilai MSE dan koefisien relasi pelatihan adalah 0,016175 dan 0,94353 sedangkan nilai MSE dan koefisien relasi pengujian adalah 0,12188 dan 0,56071. Dari hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa ANN dapat digunakan untuk memprediksi masa studi mahasiswa.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jibril Abdulsalam ◽  
Abiodun Ismail Lawal ◽  
Ramadimetja Lizah Setsepu ◽  
Moshood Onifade ◽  
Samson Bada

Abstract Globally, the provision of energy is becoming an absolute necessity. Biomass resources are abundant and have been described as a potential alternative source of energy. However, it is important to assess the fuel characteristics of the various available biomass sources. Soft computing techniques are presented in this study to predict the mass yield (MY), energy yield (EY), and higher heating value (HHV) of hydrothermally carbonized biomass by using Gene Expression Programming (GEP), multiple-input single output-artificial neural network (MISO-ANN), and Multilinear regression (MLR). The three techniques were compared using statistical performance metrics. The coefficient of determination (R2), mean absolute error (MAE), and mean bias error (MBE) were used to evaluate the performance of the models. The MISO-ANN with 5-10-10-1 and 5-15-15-1 network architectures provided the most satisfactory performance of the three proposed models (R2 = 0.976, 0.955, 0.996; MAE = 2.24, 2.11, 0.93; MBE = 0.16, 0.37, 0.12) for MY, EY and HHV respectively. The GEP technique’s ability to predict hydrochar properties based on the input parameters was found to be satisfactory, while MLR provided an unsatisfactory predictive model. Sensitivity analysis was conducted, and the analysis revealed that volatile matter (VM) and temperature (Temp) have more influence on the MY, EY, and HHV.


Author(s):  
Madhukar A. Dabhade ◽  
M. B. Saidutta ◽  
D. V. R. Murthy

Presence of phenol and phenolic compounds in various wastewaters and its harmful effects has led to the use of different treatment methods. Work on biological methods shows the use of different microorganisms and different bioreactors so as to improve the removal efficiency economically. The present work deals with the use of N. hydrocarbonoxydans (NCIM 2386), an actinomycetes, for the degradation of phenol. N. hydrocarbonoxydans was immobilized on GAC and used in a spouted bed contactor for effective contact of microorganisms and the substrate. The contactor performance was studied by varying flow rates, influent concentrations and the solids loading in the contactor. The effect of these variables on phenol degradation was investigated and modeling study was carried out using the artificial neural network (ANN). A feed forward neural network with back propagation was used for the model development. The experiments were planned as per the face centered cube design (FCCD) and used for training of the model, whereas data from four other experimental runs were used for testing and validation of the model. The network was optimized for the number of neurons based on the mean square error. The ANN model with three layers with three input neurons, eight neurons in hidden layers and one output neuron was found to predict effectively the effluent concentration for the given operating conditions in the spouted bed contactor. The mean square error was found to be 9.318e-12 for this ANN model. Also the experimental data was used to develop second order nonlinear empirical model obtained using multiple regression (MR) and the results compared with ANN using correlation coefficient (R2), average absolute error (AAE) and root mean square error (RMSE). Results show that R2, AAE and RMSE values of MR model were 0.9363, 2.085 % and 2.338 % respectively, while in case of ANN model these values were 0.9995, 0.59 % and 1.263 % respectively. This shows that ANN model prediction is better than multiple regression model prediction.


2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (9) ◽  
pp. 2413-2426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seef Saadi Fiyadh ◽  
Mohammed Abdulhakim AlSaadi ◽  
Mohamed Khalid AlOmar ◽  
Sabah Saadi Fayaed ◽  
Ako R. Hama ◽  
...  

Abstract The main challenge in the lead removal simulation is the behaviour of non-linearity relationships between the process parameters. The conventional modelling technique usually deals with this problem by a linear method. The substitute modelling technique is an artificial neural network (ANN) system, and it is selected to reflect the non-linearity in the interaction among the variables in the function. Herein, synthesized deep eutectic solvents were used as a functionalized agent with carbon nanotubes as adsorbents of Pb2+. Different parameters were used in the adsorption study including pH (2.7 to 7), adsorbent dosage (5 to 20 mg), contact time (3 to 900 min) and Pb2+ initial concentration (3 to 60 mg/l). The number of experimental trials to feed and train the system was 158 runs conveyed in laboratory scale. Two ANN types were designed in this work, the feed-forward back-propagation and layer recurrent; both methods are compared based on their predictive proficiency in terms of the mean square error (MSE), root mean square error, relative root mean square error, mean absolute percentage error and determination coefficient (R2) based on the testing dataset. The ANN model of lead removal was subjected to accuracy determination and the results showed R2 of 0.9956 with MSE of 1.66 × 10−4. The maximum relative error is 14.93% for the feed-forward back-propagation neural network model.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1885-1904
Author(s):  
Anietie Ndarake Okon ◽  
Idongesit Bassey Ansa

AbstractCalculation of water influx into petroleum reservoir is a tedious evaluation with significant reservoir engineering applications. The classical approach developed by van Everdingen–Hurst (vEH) based on diffusivity equation solution had been the fulcrum for water influx calculation in both finite and infinite-acting aquifers. The vEH model for edge-water drive reservoirs was modified by Allard and Chen for bottom-water drive reservoirs. Regrettably, these models solution variables: dimensionless influx ($$W_{{{\text{eD}}}}$$ W eD ) and dimensionless pressure ($$P_{D}$$ P D ) were presented in tabular form. In most cases, table look-up and interpolation between time entries are necessary to determine these variables, which makes the vEH approach tedious for water influx estimation. In this study, artificial neural network (ANN) models to predict the reservoir-aquifer variables $$W_{{{\text{eD}}}}$$ W eD and $$P_{D}$$ P D was developed based on the vEH datasets for the edge- and bottom-water finite and infinite-acting aquifers. The overall performance of the developed ANN models correlation coefficients (R) was 0.99983 and 0.99978 for the edge- and bottom-water finite aquifer, while edge- and bottom-water infinite-acting aquifer was 0.99992 and 0.99997, respectively. With new datasets, the generalization capacities of the developed models were evaluated using statistical tools: coefficient of determination (R2), R, mean square error (MSE), root-mean-square error (RMSE) and absolute average relative error (AARE). Comparing the developed finite aquifer models predicted $$W_{{{\text{eD}}}}$$ W eD with Lagrangian interpolation approach resulted in R2, R, MSE, RMSE and AARE of 0.9984, 0.9992, 0.3496, 0.5913 and 0.2414 for edge-water drive and 0.9993, 0.9996, 0.1863, 0.4316 and 0.2215 for bottom-water drive. Also, infinite-acting aquifer models (Model-1) resulted in R2, R, MSE, RMSE and AARE of 0.9999, 0.9999, 0.5447, 0.7380 and 0.2329 for edge-water drive, while bottom-water drive had 0.9999, 0.9999, 0.2299, 0.4795 and 0.1282. Again, the edge-water infinite-acting model predicted $$W_{{{\text{eD}}}}$$ W eD and Edwardson et al. polynomial estimated $$W_{eD}$$ W eD resulted in the R2 value of 0.9996, R of 0.9998, MSE of 4.740 × 10–4, RMSE of 0.0218 and AARE of 0.0147. Furthermore, the developed ANN models generalization performance was compared with some models for estimating $$P_{D}$$ P D . The results obtained for finite aquifer model showed the statistical measures: R2, R, MSE, RMSE and AARE of 0.9985, 0.9993, 0.0125, 0.1117 and 0.0678 with Chatas model and 0.9863, 0.9931, 0.1411, 0.3756 and 0.2310 with Fanchi equation. The infinite-acting aquifer model had 0.9999, 0.9999, 0.1750, 0.0133 and 7.333 × 10–3 with Edwardson et al. polynomial, then 0.9865, 09,933, 0.0143, 0.1194 and 0.0831 with Lee model and 0.9991, 0.9996, 1.079 × 10–3, 0.0328 and 0.0282 with Fanchi model. Therefore, the developed ANN models can predict $$W_{{{\text{eD}}}}$$ W eD and $$P_{D}$$ P D for the various aquifer sizes provided by vEH datasets for water influx calculation.


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