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MATERIALS
Volume 15, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma15124296
Keywords
sustainable concrete; recycled aggregate; machine learning; decision tree; artificial neural network; random forest
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- Deanship of Scientific Research, Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia [GRANT643]
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Using advanced artificial intelligence methods, this study predicts the split tensile strength of concrete samples incorporating recycled aggregate. The results show that the random forest model outperforms other models in predicting the strength. The study also validates the accuracy of the models using statistical tests and cross-validation techniques, and investigates the importance of input parameters using sensitivity analysis and SHAP analysis.
Sustainable concrete is gaining in popularity as a result of research into waste materials, such as recycled aggregate (RA). This strategy not only protects the environment, but also meets the demand for concrete materials. Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) approaches, this study anticipates the split tensile strength (STS) of concrete samples incorporating RA. Three machine-learning techniques, artificial neural network (ANN), decision tree (DT), and random forest (RF), were examined for the specified database. The results suggest that the RF model shows high precision compared with the DT and ANN models at predicting the STS of RA-based concrete. The high value of the coefficient of determination and the low error values of the mean absolute error (MAE), mean square error (MSE), and root mean square error (RMSE) provided significant evidence for the accuracy and precision of the RF model. Furthermore, statistical tests and the k-fold cross-validation technique were used to validate the models. The importance of the input parameters and their contribution levels was also investigated using sensitivity analysis and SHAP analysis.
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