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An improved random forest model to predict bond strength of FRP-to-concrete

    Li Tao Affiliation
    ; Xinhua Xue Affiliation

Abstract

Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) is an excellent building material for strengthening concrete structures, but it is difficult to accurately evaluate the bond strength of FRP-to-concrete due to the influence of various parameters. In this study, a novel hybrid model which combines particle swarm optimization (PSO) with random forest (RF) was proposed to predict the bond strength of FRP-to-concrete. The PSO algorithm was used to optimize the hyperparameters of the RF model. A total of 749 specimens collected from the literature were used to develop the proposed PSO-RF model. Each sample contains 11 parameters required for the model. These 11 parameters are (1) the compressive strength of concrete, (2) the tensile strength of concrete, (3) the width of concrete specimen, (4) the maximum aggregate size of concrete, (5) the tensile strength of FRP, (6) the thickness of FRP, (7) the elastic modulus of FRP, (8) the tensile strength of adhesive, (9) the bond length of FRP, (10) the bond width of FRP, and (11) the bond strength of FRP-to-concrete. The proposed PSO-RF model was compared with other machine learning models as well as ten empirical equations. Six statistical indices, namely root mean squared error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), coefficient of determination (R2), Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency coefficient (NSE), Willmott’s Index of Agreement (WIA), and Legates-McCabe’s Index (LM) were used to evaluate the prediction performance of the abovementioned models. The results show that the RMSE, MAE, R2, NSE, WIA and LM values of the PSO-RF model are 1.529 kN, 0.942 kN, 0.986, 0.984, 0.996 and 0.892, respectively, for the training datasets and 2.672 kN, 1.967 kN, 0.963, 0.961, 0.989 and 0.761, respectively, for the test datasets. It can be concluded that the proposed PSO-RF model has the best comprehensive performance in predicting the bond strength of FRP-to-concrete. In addition, the sensitivity analysis of the PSO-RF model was also conducted in this study.

Keyword : fiber-reinforced polymer, multivariate adaptive regression splines, wavelet neural network, particle swarm optimization, random forest

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Tao, L., & Xue, X. (2024). An improved random forest model to predict bond strength of FRP-to-concrete. Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 30(6), 520–535. https://doi.org/10.3846/jcem.2024.21636
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