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http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/cac.2016.18.6.1065

Modeling mechanical strength of self-compacting mortar containing nanoparticles using wavelet-based support vector machine  

Khatibinia, Mohsen (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Birjand)
Feizbakhsh, Abdosattar (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Birjand)
Mohseni, Ehsan (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Guilan)
Ranjbar, Malek Mohammad (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Guilan)
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Computers and Concrete / v.18, no.6, 2016 , pp. 1065-1082 More about this Journal
Abstract
The main aim of this study is to predict the compressive and flexural strengths of self-compacting mortar (SCM) containing $nano-SiO_2$, $nano-Fe_2O_3$ and nano-CuO using wavelet-based weighted least squares-support vector machines (WLS-SVM) approach which is called WWLS-SVM. The WWLS-SVM regression model is a relatively new metamodel has been successfully introduced as an excellent machine learning algorithm to engineering problems and has yielded encouraging results. In order to achieve the aim of this study, first, the WLS-SVM and WWLS-SVM models are developed based on a database. In the database, nine variables which consist of cement, sand, NS, NF, NC, superplasticizer dosage, slump flow diameter and V-funnel flow time are considered as the input parameters of the models. The compressive and flexural strengths of SCM are also chosen as the output parameters of the models. Finally, a statistical analysis is performed to demonstrate the generality performance of the models for predicting the compressive and flexural strengths. The numerical results show that both of these metamodels have good performance in the desirable accuracy and applicability. Furthermore, by adopting these predicting metamodels, the considerable cost and time-consuming laboratory tests can be eliminated.
Keywords
model mortar; compressive strength; flexural strength; nanoparticles; weighted least squares support vector machine; wavelet;
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