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An efficient robust cost optimization procedure for rice husk ash concrete mix

  • Moulick, Kalyan K. (Department of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University) ;
  • Bhattacharjya, Soumya (Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology) ;
  • Ghosh, Saibal K. (Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology) ;
  • Shiuly, Amit (Department of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University)
  • Received : 2018.05.05
  • Accepted : 2019.04.23
  • Published : 2019.06.25

Abstract

As rice husk ash (RHA) is not produced in controlled manufacturing process like cement, its properties vary significantly even within the same lot. In fact, properties of Rice Husk Ash Based Concrete (RHABC) are largely dictated by uncertainty leading to huge deviations from their expected values. This paper proposes a Robust Cost Optimization (RCO) procedure for RHABC, which minimizes such unwanted deviation due to uncertainty and provides guarantee of achieving desired strength and workability with least possible cost. The RCO simultaneously minimizes cost of RHABC production and its deviation considering feasibility of attaining desired strength and workability in presence of uncertainty. RHA related properties have been modeled as uncertain-but-bounded type as associated probability density function is not available. Metamodeling technique is adopted in this work for generating explicit expressions of constraint functions required for formulation of RCO. In doing so, the Moving Least Squares Method is explored in place of conventional Least Square Method (LSM) to ensure accuracy of the RCO. The efficiency by the proposed MLSM based RCO is validated by experimental studies. The error by the LSM and accuracy by the MLSM predictions are clearly envisaged from the test results. The experimental results show good agreement with the proposed MLSM based RCO predicted mix properties. The present RCO procedure yields RHABC mixes which is almost insensitive to uncertainty (i.e., robust solution) with nominal deviation from experimental mean values. At the same time, desired reliability of satisfying the constraints is achieved with marginal increment in cost.

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