An Intelligent Model for the Prediction of Bond Strength of FRP Bars in Concrete: A Soft Computing Approach

Bolandi, Hamed; Banzhaf, Wolfgang; Lajnef, Nizar; Barri, Kaveh; Alavi, Amir H.

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An Intelligent Model for the Prediction of Bond Strength of FRP Bars in Concrete: A Soft Computing Approach

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA, [email protected] (H.B.)

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

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Technologies 2019, 7(2), 42; https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies7020042

Received: 15 April 2019 / Revised: 1 June 2019 / Accepted: 4 June 2019 / Published: 6 June 2019

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Accurate prediction of bond behavior of fiber reinforcement polymer (FRP) concrete has a pivotal role in the construction industry. This paper presents a soft computing method called multi-gene genetic programming (MGGP) to develop an intelligent prediction model for the bond strength of FRP bars in concrete. The main advantage of the MGGP method over other similar methods is that it can formulate the bond strength by combining the capabilities of both standard genetic programming and classical regression. A number of parameters affecting the bond strength of FRP bars were identified and fed into the MGGP algorithm. The algorithm was trained using an experimental database including 223 test results collected from the literature. The proposed MGGP model accurately predicts the bond strength of FRP bars in concrete. The newly defined predictor variables were found to be efficient in characterizing the bond strength. The derived equation has better performance than the widely-used American Concrete Institute (ACI) model. View Full-Text

Keywords: data mining; bond strength; FRP-bar; multi-gene genetic programming

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Bolandi, H.; Banzhaf, W.; Lajnef, N.; Barri, K.; Alavi, A.H. An Intelligent Model for the Prediction of Bond Strength of FRP Bars in Concrete: A Soft Computing Approach. Technologies 2019, 7, 42. https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies7020042

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Bolandi H, Banzhaf W, Lajnef N, Barri K, Alavi AH. An Intelligent Model for the Prediction of Bond Strength of FRP Bars in Concrete: A Soft Computing Approach. Technologies. 2019; 7(2):42. https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies7020042

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Bolandi, Hamed, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Nizar Lajnef, Kaveh Barri, and Amir H. Alavi. 2019. "An Intelligent Model for the Prediction of Bond Strength of FRP Bars in Concrete: A Soft Computing Approach" Technologies 7, no. 2: 42. https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies7020042

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