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- Title
Assessment and optimization of thermal and fluidity properties of high strength concrete via genetic algorithm.
- Authors
Şimşek, Barış; Şimşek, Emir H.
- Abstract
This paper proposes a Response Surface Methodology (RSM) based Genetic Algorithm (GA) using MATLAB® to assess and optimize the thermal and fluidity of high strength concrete (HSC). The overall heat transfer coefficient, slump-spread flow and T50 time was defined as thermal and fluidity properties of high strength concrete. In addition to above mentioned properties, a 28-day compressive strength of HSC was also determined. Water to binder ratio, fine aggregate to total aggregate ratio and the percentage of super-plasticizer content was determined as effective factors on thermal and fluidity properties of HSC. GA based multi-objective optimization method was carried out by obtaining quadratic models using RSM. Having excessive or low ratio of water to binder provides lower overall heat transfer coefficient. Moreover, T50 time of high strength concrete decreased with the increasing of water to binder ratio and the percentage of superplasticizer content. Results show that RSM based GA is effective in determining optimal mixture ratios of HSC.
- Subjects
HIGH strength concrete; MATHEMATICAL optimization; THERMAL properties; GENETIC algorithms; RESPONSE surfaces (Statistics)
- Publication
International Journal of Optimization & Control: Theories & Applications, 2017, Vol 7, Issue 1, p90
- ISSN
2146-0957
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11121/ijocta.01.2017.00345