APPLICATION OF DEEP LEARNING FRAMEWORK (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) FOR CONCRETE GRADATION

Abstract

Concrete gradation or calculating the strength that a given mix of concrete will give is one of the major concerns of a civil engineering/construction engineering. To find the grade of concrete different destructive and nondestructive method are employed. This calculation of grade of concrete helps in the verification and confirmation of the overall stability and safety of the given structure.
In this study, an attempt has made to apply the deep learning framework of artificial intelligence to predict the grade of hardened concrete mix of life 28 days. A deep learning framework was made to predict the grade of concrete by analysing the photograph of a hardened concrete mix. At a small scale few grades of concrete were designed and casted in the laboratory and the pictorial data was collected under specific conditions. Then this data was used to train the framework and then the framework was used to predict the grade of a random data of concrete.