Computer-aided Prediction of the ZrO2 Nanoparticles' Effects on Tensile Strength and Percentage of Water Absorption of Concrete Specimens

doi:10.1016/S1005-0302(12)60027-9

Journal of Materials Science & Technology

Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 83-96

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In the present paper, two models based on artificial neural networks and genetic programming for predicting split tensile strength and percentage of water absorption of concretes containing ZrO₂ nanoparticles have been developed at different ages of curing. For building these models, training and testing using experimental results for 144 specimens produced with 16 different mixture proportions were conducted. The data used in the multilayer feed forward neural networks models and input variables of genetic programming models were arranged in a format of eight input parameters that cover the cement content, nanoparticle content, aggregate type, water content, the amount of superplasticizer, the type of curing medium, age of curing and number of testing try. According to these input parameters, in the neural networks and genetic programming models, the split tensile strength and percentage of water absorption values of concretes containing ZrO₂ nanoparticles were predicted. The training and testing results in the neural network and genetic programming models have shown that two models have strong potential for predicting the split tensile strength and percentage of water absorption values of concretes containing ZrO₂ nanoparticles. It has been found that neural network (NN) and gene expression programming (GEP) models will be valid within the ranges of variables. In neural networks model, as the training and testing ended when minimum error norm of network gained, the best results were obtained and in genetic programming model, when 4 genes were selected to construct the model, the best results were acquired. Although neural network have predicted better results, genetic programming is able to predict reasonable values with a simpler method rather than neural network.

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Computer-aided Prediction of the ZrO2 Nanoparticles' Effects on Tensile Strength and Percentage of Water Absorption of Concrete Specimens

Cement Concr. Res.

Cement Concr. Res.

Cement Concr. Res

Cement Concr. Res

Mater. Sci. Eng. A.

Mater. Sci. Eng. A.

Compos. Part B: Eng.

Compos. Part B: Eng.

Mater. Sci. Eng. A.

Mater. Sci. Eng. A.

Energy Build.

Energy Build.

J. Mater. Sci. Technol.

Int. J. Fatigue

Nucl. Eng. Des.

Eng. Fract. Mech

Comput. Meth. Appl. Mech. Eng.

Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell.

Comput. Mater. Sci.

Mater. Struct.

Construct. Build., Mater.

Computer-aided Prediction of the ZrO₂ Nanoparticles' Effects on Tensile Strength and Percentage of Water Absorption of Concrete Specimens