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Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering >> 2019, Volume 13, Issue 6 doi: 10.1007/s11709-019-0562-2

Predicting resilient modulus of recycled concrete and clay masonry blends for pavement applications using soft computing techniques

. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, South Korea.. Incheon Disaster Prevention Research Center, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, South Korea.. Department of Public Works and Civil Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt

Accepted: 2019-09-16 Available online: 2019-09-16
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To date, very few researchers employed the Least Square Support Vector Machine (LSSVM) in predicting the resilient modulus ( ) of Unbound Granular Materials (UGMs). This paper focused on the development of a LSSVM model to predict the of recycled materials for pavement applications and comparison with other different models such as Regression, and Artificial Neural Network (ANN). Blends of Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA) with Recycled Clay Masonry (RCM) with proportions of 100/0, 90/10, 80/20, 70/30, 55/45, 40/60, 20/80, and 0/100 by the total aggregate mass were evaluated for use as UGMs. RCA/RCM materials were collected from dumps on the sides of roads around Mansoura city, Egypt. The investigated blends were evaluated experimentally by routine and advanced tests and the values were determined by Repeated Load Triaxial Test (RLTT). Regression, ANN, and LSSVM models were utilized and compared in predicting the of the investigated blends optimizing the best design model. Results showed that the ’s of the investigated RCA/RCM blends were generally increased with the decrease in RCM proportion. Statistical analyses were utilized for evaluating the performance of the developed models and the inputs sensitivity parameters. Eventually, the results approved that the LSSVM model can be used as a novel tool to estimate the of the investigated RCA/RCM blends.

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