Prediction of Compressive Strength of Self- Compacting Concrete with Fuzzy Logic

The paper presents the potential of fuzzy logic (FL-I) and neural network techniques (ANN-I) for predicting the compressive strength, for SCC mixtures. Six input parameters that is contents of cement, sand, coarse aggregate, fly ash, superplasticizer percentage and water-to-binder ratio and an output parameter i.e. 28- day compressive strength for ANN-I and FL-I are used for modeling. The fuzzy logic model showed better performance than neural network model.

Authors:

• Paratibha Aggarwal
• Yogesh Aggarwal

Keywords:

• Self compacting concrete
• compressive strength
• prediction
• neural network
• Fuzzy logic.

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