Research Article

Using Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Predict the Fracture Energy of Concrete Beams

Table 1

Variables of the concrete fracture energy prediction model.

VariablesItemsMinimumMaximumAverageStandard deviation

Input variablesS (mm)191.02000.0720.0252.2
W (mm)50.0400.0121.654.3
T (mm)40.0152.088.517.8
a0 (mm)5.0207.044.434.0
w/c0.190.800.390.14
λ0.170.560.280.05
dmax (mm)1.032.014.94.7
fc (MPa)4.0180.057.922.2

Output variablesGf (N/m)36.3367.0149.080.5