Prediction of shear strength of concrete produced by using pozzolanic materials and partly replacing NFA by MS using ANN

Abstract

Purpose The use of huge quantity of natural fine aggregate (NFA) and cement in civil construction work which have given rise to various ecological problems. The industrial waste like blast furnace slag (GGBFS), fly ash, metakaolin and silica fume can be partly used as a replacement for cement and manufactured sand obtained from crusher and partly used as fine aggregate. The purpose of this paper is to predict the shear strength of concrete using artificial neural network (ANN) for concrete made by using different pozzolans and partly replacing NFA by manufactured sand (MS) which can reduce the time and experimental cost. Design/methodology/approach In this work, MATLAB software model is developed using neural network toolbox to predict the shear strength of concrete made by using pozzolanic materials and partly replacing NFA by manufactured sand (MS). Shear strength was experimentally calculated, and results obtained from experiment were used to develop the ANN model. A total of 131 results values were used to modeling formation, and from that 30% data record was used for testing purpose and 70% data record was used for training purpose. In total, 25 input materials properties were used to find the 28 days shear strength of concrete obtained from partly replacing cement with pozzolans and partly replacing NFA by manufactured sand (MS). Findings The results obtained from ANN model provide very strong accuracy to predict shear strength of concrete obtained from partly replacing cement with pozzolans and NFA by manufactured sand. Originality/value This research study is on determining shear strength of concrete using ANN. The use of this study is to predict the shear strength of concrete using ANN for concrete made by using different pozzolans and partly replacing NFA by manufactured sand (MS) which can reduce the time and experimental cost.

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