scholarly journals ANN-based Fatigue Strength of Concrete Under Compression

Author(s):  
Miguel Abambres ◽  
Lantsoght E

<p>When concrete is subjected to cycles of compression, its strength is lower than the statically determined concrete compressive strength. This reduction is typically expressed as a function of the number of cycles. In this work, we predict the reduced capacity as function of a given number of cycles by means of artificial neural networks (ANN). A 203-point experimental dataset gathered from the literature was used. The proposed ANN model results in a maximum relative error of 5.1% and a mean counterpart of 1.2% for the whole dataset. It’s shown that the proposed analytical model outperforms the existing design code expressions.</p>

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abambres M ◽  
Lantsoght E

<p>When concrete is subjected to cycles of compression, its strength is lower than the statically determined concrete compressive strength. This reduction is typically expressed as a function of the number of cycles. In this work, we predict the reduced capacity as function of a given number of cycles by means of artificial neural networks (ANN). A 203-point experimental dataset gathered from the literature was used. The proposed ANN model results in a maximum relative error of 5.1% and a mean counterpart of 1.2% for the whole dataset. It’s shown that the proposed analytical model outperforms the existing design code expressions.</p>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abambres M ◽  
Lantsoght E

<p>When concrete is subjected to cycles of compression, its strength is lower than the statically determined concrete compressive strength. This reduction is typically expressed as a function of the number of cycles. In this work, we predict the reduced capacity as function of a given number of cycles by means of artificial neural networks (ANN). A 203-point experimental dataset gathered from the literature was used. The proposed ANN model results in a maximum relative error of 5.1% and a mean counterpart of 1.2% for the whole dataset. It’s shown that the proposed analytical model outperforms the existing design code expressions.</p>


Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 3787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abambres ◽  
Lantsoght

When concrete is subjected to cycles of compression, its strength is lower than the statically determined concrete compressive strength. This reduction is typically expressed as a function of the number of cycles. In this work, we study the reduced capacity as a function of a given number of cycles by means of artificial neural networks. We used an input database with 203 datapoints gathered from the literature. To find the optimal neural network, 14 features of neural networks were studied and varied, resulting in the optimal neural net. This proposed model resulted in a maximum relative error of 5.1% and a mean relative error of 1.2% for the 203 datapoints. The proposed model resulted in a better prediction (mean tested to predicted value = 1.00 with a coefficient of variation 1.7%) as compared to the existing code expressions. The model we developed can thus be used for the design and the assessment of concrete structures and provides a more accurate assessment and design than the existing methods.


Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Fernando A. N. Silva ◽  
João M. P. Q. Delgado ◽  
Rosely S. Cavalcanti ◽  
António C. Azevedo ◽  
Ana S. Guimarães ◽  
...  

The work presents the results of an experimental campaign carried out on concrete elements in order to investigate the potential of using artificial neural networks (ANNs) to estimate the compressive strength based on relevant parameters, such as the water–cement ratio, aggregate–cement ratio, age of testing, and percentage cement/metakaolin ratios (5% and 10%). We prepared 162 cylindrical concrete specimens with dimensions of 10 cm in diameter and 20 cm in height and 27 prismatic specimens with cross sections measuring 25 and 50 cm in length, with 9 different concrete mixture proportions. A longitudinal transducer with a frequency of 54 kHz was used to measure the ultrasonic velocities. An ANN model was developed, different ANN configurations were tested and compared to identify the best ANN model. Using this model, it was possible to assess the contribution of each input variable to the compressive strength of the tested concretes. The results indicate an excellent performance of the ANN model developed to predict compressive strength from the input parameters studied, with an average error less than 5%. Together, the water–cement ratio and the percentage of metakaolin were shown to be the most influential factors for the compressive strength value predicted by the developed ANN model.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Lechowicz ◽  
Masaharu Fukue ◽  
Simon Rabarijoely ◽  
Maria Sulewska

The undrained shear strength of organic soils can be evaluated based on measurements obtained from the dilatometer test using single- and multi-factor empirical correlations presented in the literature. However, the empirical methods may sometimes show relatively high values of maximum relative error. Therefore, a method for evaluating the undrained shear strength of organic soils using artificial neural networks based on data obtained from a dilatometer test and organic soil properties is presented in this study. The presented neural network, with an architecture of 5-4-1, predicts the normalized undrained shear strength based on five independent variables: the normalized net value of a corrected first pressure reading (po − uo)/σ′v, the normalized net value of a corrected second pressure reading (p1 − uo)/σ′v, the organic content Iom, the void ratio e, and the stress history indictor (oc or nc). The neural model presented in this study provided a more reliable prediction of the undrained shear strength in comparison to the empirical methods, with a maximum relative error of ±10%.


2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1051-1074 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. LORENZI ◽  
B. V. SILVA ◽  
M. P. BARBOSA ◽  
L. C. P. SILVA FILHO

Abstract This study aims the possibility of using the pull-out test results - bond tests steel-concrete, that has been successfully carried out by the research group APULOT since 2008 [1]. This research demonstrates that the correlation between bond stress and concrete compressive strength allows estimate concrete compressive strength. However to obtain adequate answers testing of bond steel-concrete is necessary to control the settings test. This paper aims to correlate the results of bond tests of type pull-out with its variables by using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Though an ANN is possible to correlate the known input data (age rupture, anchorage length, covering and compressive strength of concrete) with control parameters (bond stress steel-concrete). To generate the model it is necessary to train the neural network using a database with known input and output parameters. This allows estimating the correlation between the neurons in each layer. This paper shows the modeling of an ANN capable of performing a nonlinear approach to estimate the concrete compressive strength using the results of steel-concrete bond tests.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Nikoo ◽  
Farshid Torabian Moghadam ◽  
Łukasz Sadowski

Compressive strength of concrete has been predicted using evolutionary artificial neural networks (EANNs) as a combination of artificial neural network (ANN) and evolutionary search procedures, such as genetic algorithms (GA). In this paper for purpose of constructing models samples of cylindrical concrete parts with different characteristics have been used with 173 experimental data patterns. Water-cement ratio, maximum sand size, amount of gravel, cement, 3/4 sand, 3/8 sand, and coefficient of soft sand parameters were considered as inputs; and using the ANN models, the compressive strength of concrete is calculated. Moreover, using GA, the number of layers and nodes and weights are optimized in ANN models. In order to evaluate the accuracy of the model, the optimized ANN model is compared with the multiple linear regression (MLR) model. The results of simulation verify that the recommended ANN model enjoys more flexibility, capability, and accuracy in predicting the compressive strength of concrete.


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