Using Artificial Intelligence Approach for Investigating and Predicting Yield Stress of Cemented Paste Backfill

Tran Van Quan ()
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Tran Van Quan: Science Technology and International Cooperation Department, University of Transport Technology, No. 54 Trieu Khuc Street, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-22

Abstract: The technology known as cemented paste backfill (CPB) has gained considerable popularity worldwide. Yield stress (YS) is a significant factor considered in the assessment of CPB’s flowability or transportability. The minimal shear stress necessary to start the flow is known as Yield stress (YS), and it serves as an excellent measure of the strength of the particle-particle interaction. The traditional evaluation and measurement of YS performed by experimental tests are time-consuming and costly, which induces delays in construction projects. Moreover, the YS of CPB depends on numerous factors such as cement/tailing ratio, solid content and oxide content of tailing. Therefore, in order to simplify YS estimation and evaluation, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches including eight Machine Learning techniques such as the Extreme Gradient Boosting algorithm, Gradient Boosting algorithm, Random Forest algorithm, Decision Trees, K-Nearest Neighbor, Support Vector Machine, Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines and Gaussian Process are used to build the soft-computing model in predicting the YS of CPB. The performance of these models is evaluated by three metrics coefficient of determination (R 2 ), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE). The 3 best models were found to predict the Yield Stress of CPB (Gradient Boosting (GB), Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB) and Random Forest (RF), respectively) with the 3 metrics of the three models, respectively, GB {R 2 = 0.9811, RMSE = 0.1327 MPa, MAE = 0.0896 MPa}, XGB {R 2 = 0.9034, RMSE = 0.3004 MPa, MAE = 0.1696 MPa} and RF {R 2 = 0.8534, RMSE = 0.3700 MPa, MAE = 0.1786 MPa}, for the testing dataset. Based on the best performance model including GB, XG and RF, the other AI techniques such as SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP), Permutation Importance, and Individual Conditional Expectation (ICE) are also used for evaluating the factor effect on the YS of CPB. The results of this investigation can help the engineers to accelerate the mixed design of CPB.

Keywords: cemented paste backfill; yield stress; machine learning; SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP); Permutation Importance; Individual Conditional Expectation (ICE) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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