“…Furthermore, some of the more sophisticated approaches to this problem fail to guarantee that the models proposed make physical sense. Nonetheless, there are very interesting new approaches to predict the mechanical properties of concrete with RA using sophisticated statistical models and tools, such as artificial neural networks (Dantas, Leite, & Nagahama, 2013; Duan, Kou, & Poon, 2013;Kim, Lee, et al, 2013;Topçu & Sarıdemir, 2008), fuzzy logic (Topçu & Sarıdemir, 2008) and non-linear and multi-linear regressing analysis Tam, Wang, & Tam, 2008;Younis & Pilakoutas, 2013). However, for the reasons stated above, the use of such methods was not the strategy followed in the research presented here.…”