Machine Learning-based Prediction of Porosity for Concrete Containing Supplementary Cementitious Materials

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07353v1
• Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 08:08:51 GMT
• Title: Machine Learning-based Prediction of Porosity for Concrete Containing Supplementary Cementitious Materials
• Authors: Chong Cao
• Abstract summary: This paper applies ensemble learning to predict porosity of high-performance concrete containing supplementary cementitious materials. The concrete samples are characterized by eight composition features including w/b ratio, binder content, fly ash, GGBS, superplasticizer, coarse/fine aggregate ratio, curing condition and curing days.
• Score: 2.0254912065749955
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Porosity has been identified as the key indicator of the durability properties of concrete exposed to aggressive environments. This paper applies ensemble learning to predict porosity of high-performance concrete containing supplementary cementitious materials. The concrete samples utilized in this study are characterized by eight composition features including w/b ratio, binder content, fly ash, GGBS, superplasticizer, coarse/fine aggregate ratio, curing condition and curing days. The assembled database consists of 240 data records, featuring 74 unique concrete mixture designs. The proposed machine learning algorithms are trained on 180 observations (75%) chosen randomly from the data set and then tested on the remaining 60 observations (25%). The numerical experiments suggest that the regression tree ensembles can accurately predict the porosity of concrete from its mixture compositions. Gradient boosting trees generally outperforms random forests in terms of prediction accuracy. For random forests, the out-of-bag error based hyperparameter tuning strategy is found to be much more efficient than k-Fold Cross-Validation.

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