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  • Materials Science
  • Civil Engineering
  • Computational Science

Background:

  • Hydration heat is critical in cement composites, but traditional measurement methods are labor- and time-intensive.
  • Existing techniques for quantifying hydration heat in various cementitious materials present significant limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a machine learning-based approach for predicting hydration heat in cement composites.
  • To establish an efficient method for assessing hydration heat, reducing reliance on conventional testing.

Main Methods:

  • An artificial neural network (ANN) model was optimized and trained using datasets from three cement composite types.
  • The model's predictive performance was evaluated on an independent dataset for accuracy and generalization.

Main Results:

  • The optimized ANN model demonstrated high accuracy in predicting hydration heat at specific time points.
  • The machine learning approach proved effective across ordinary Portland cement pastes, fly ash cement pastes, and fly ash-metakaolin cement composites.

Conclusions:

  • Machine learning offers a more efficient and less labor-intensive alternative for measuring cement hydration heat.
  • This predictive approach can accelerate cement research and production and potentially be applied to other cement composite properties.