Neural networks for predicting compressive strength of structural light weight concrete

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2214-2219

  Alshihri, Marai M ^a   Azmy, Ahmed M ^b   El Bisy, Mousa S ^a  

^a UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Back propagation; Cascade correlation; Compressive strength; Light weight concrete; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; BACKPROPAGATION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONCRETES; CURING; LIGHT WEIGHT CONCRETE; LIGHT WEIGHT STRUCTURES; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA; SILICA; SILICA FUME; WEIGHING;

CASCADE CORRELATION; COARSE AGGREGATES; COMPLEX BEHAVIORS; FEED-FORWARD BACK PROPAGATION; FINE AGGREGATES; LIGHT WEIGHTS; NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS MODELS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGIES; STATISTICAL MODELS; STRENGTH OF LIGHTS; SUPERPLASTICIZER; WATER/CEMENT RATIOS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 63249107491     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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