Modeling viscosity behavior of crumb rubber modified binders

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3053-3062

  Thodesen, Carl ^a   Xiao, Feipeng ^b   Amirkhanian, Serji N ^b  

^a ECOPATH Industries   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Crumb rubber; Important index; Regression; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASPHALT BINDERS; CRM BINDER; CRUMB RUBBER; CRUMB RUBBER CONCENTRATION; IMPORTANT INDEX; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INPUT VARIABLES; MODIFIED BINDERS; REGRESSION; REGRESSION MODEL; RUBBER CONCENTRATION; RUBBER CONTENT; STATISTICAL REGRESSION; TEST TEMPERATURES; VISCOSITY BEHAVIOR; VISCOSITY PREDICTION; VISCOSITY VALUE; VISCOUS PROPERTIES;

BACKPROPAGATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUBBER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY;

BINDERS;

EID: 67349205085     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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