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Computers and Concrete
  Volume 5, Number 5, October 2008 , pages 461-473
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/cac.2008.5.5.461
 


Modeling properties of self-compacting concrete: support vector machines approach
Rafat Siddique, Paratibha Aggarwal, Yogesh Aggarwal and S. M. Gupta

 
Abstract
    The paper explores the potential of Support Vector Machines (SVM) approach in predicting 28-day compressive strength and slump flow of self-compacting concrete. Total of 80 data collected from the exiting literature were used in present work. To compare the performance of the technique, prediction was also done using a back propagation neural network model. For this data-set, RBF kernel worked well in comparison to polynomial kernel based support vector machines and provide a root mean square error of 4.688 (MPa) (correlation coefficient=0.942) for 28-day compressive strength prediction and a root mean square error of 7.825 cm (correlation coefficient=0.931) for slump flow. Results obtained for RMSE and correlation coefficient suggested a comparable performance by Support Vector Machine approach to neural network approach for both 28-day compressive strength and slump flow prediction.
 
Key Words
    28-day compressive strength; slump flow; prediction; Support vector machines technique; neural network.
 
Address
Rafat Siddique : Department of Civil Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala, India
Paratibha Aggarwal, Yogesh Aggarwal and S. M. Gupta : Department of Civil Engineering, N.I.T. Kurukshetra, India
 

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