Investigation on correlation between pulse velocity and compressive strength of concrete using ANNs

Computers and Concrete

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 477-497

  Tang, Chao Wei ^a   Lin, Yiching ^b   Kuo, Shin Fang ^b  

^a CHENG SHIU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Concrete compressive strength; Multilayer perceptrons; Ultrasonic pulse velocity

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CORRELATION METHODS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY; ULTRASONICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

PULSE VELOCITY; ULTRASONIC PULSE VELOCITY;

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 37749029734     PISSN: 15988198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/cac.2007.4.6.477     Document Type: Article

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