Application of Artificial Intelligence for the Estimation of Concrete and Reinforcement Consumption in the Construction of Integral Bridges

Table 7

Artificial neural network models for estimating concrete consumption (min-max normalization).

Model name	Model characteristics	Activation function of hidden layers	Activation function of an output layer	MAPE training set (%)	MAPE test set (%)
NMB3	MLP 6-11-1	ReLu	Identity	9.97	10.5
NMB4	MLP 6-12-1	Tanh	Identity	10.78	10.81
NMB6	MLP 6-7-1	ReLu	Identity	8.78	10.73