Prediction of the compressive strength of high-performance self-compacting concrete by an ultrasonic-rebound method based on a GA-BP neural network

Guoqiang Du, Liangtao Bu, Qi Hou, Jing Zhou and Beixin Lu

PLOS ONE, 2021, vol. 16, issue 5, 1-25

Abstract: To address the problem of low accuracy and poor robustness of in situ testing of the compressive strength of high-performance self-compacting concrete (SCC), a genetic algorithm (GA)-optimized backpropagation neural network (BPNN) model was established to predict the compressive strength of SCC. Experiments based on two concrete nondestructive testing methods, i.e., ultrasonic pulse velocity and Schmidt rebound hammer, were designed and test sample data were obtained. A neural network topology with two input nodes, 19 hidden nodes, and one output node was constructed, and the initial weights and thresholds of the resulting traditional BPNN model were optimized using GA. The results showed a correlation coefficient of 0.967 between the values predicted by the established BPNN model and the test values, with an RMSE of 3.703, compared to a correlation coefficient of 0.979 between the values predicted by the GA-optimized BPNN model and the test values, with an RMSE of 2.972. The excellent agreement between the predicted and test values demonstrates the model can accurately predict the compressive strength of SCC and hence reduce the cost and time for SCC compressive strength testing.

Date: 2021
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