PREDICTION OF CONCRETE MIXTURE DESIGN AND COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH THROUGH DATA ANALYSIS AND MACHINE LEARNING

Abstract

Concrete is the most used building material in civil engineering. The mechanical properties of concrete depend on the percentage of materials used in the mix design. There are different types of mixture methods, and the purpose of this study is to investigate the mechanical properties of concrete using the mixture method through data analysis. In this case, more than 45 mixture designs are collected to find the estimated mixture design. The estimated mixture design was found by correlation matrix and the correlation between materials of concrete. Moreover, to find the reliability of the compressive strength of concrete through data mining, two models have been established. In this term, Linear Regression (LR), Ridge Regression (RR), Support Vector Machine Regression (SVR), and Polynomial Regression (PR) have been applied to predict compressive strength. In this study, the stress-strain curve of the compressive strength of concrete was also investigated. To find the accuracy of machine learning models, Correlation Coefficient (R2), Mean Absolute Errors (MAE), and Root Mean Squared Errors (RMSE) are established. However, the machine learning prediction model of RR and PR shows the best results of prediction with R2 0.93, MAE 3.7, and RMSE 5.3 for RR. The PR R2 was more than 0.91, moreover, the stress-strain of compressive strengths has been predicted with high accuracy through Logistic Algorithm Function. The experimental results were acceptable. In the compressive strength experimental results R2 was 0.91 MAE was 1.07, and RMSE was 2.71 from prediction mixture designs. Finally, the prediction and experimental results have indicated that the current study was reliable.