Evaluation of sisal fiber and aluminum waste concrete blend for sustainable construction using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system

Abstract

AbstractThis research study presents evaluation of aluminum waste-sisal fiber concrete’s mechanical properties using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) to achieve sustainable and eco-efficient engineering works. The deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) tools enables the optimization of building materials combined with admixtures to create durable engineering designs and eliminate the drawbacks encountered in trial-and-error or empirical method. The features of the cement-AW blend's setting time were evaluated in the laboratory and the results revealed that 0–50% of aluminum-waste (AW) inclusion increased both the initial and final setting time from 51–165 min and 585–795 min respectively. The blended concrete mix's flexural strength tests also show that 10% sisal-fiber (SF) substitution results in a maximum flexural strength of 11.6N/mm2, while 50% replacement results in a minimum flexural strength of 4.11N/mm2. Moreover, compressive strength test results show that SF and AW replacements of 0.08% and 0.1%, respectively, resulted in peak outcome of 24.97N/mm2, while replacements of 0.5% and 0.45% resulted in a minimum response of 17.02N/mm2. The ANFIS-model was developed using 91 datasets obtained from the experimental findings on varying replacements of cement and fine-aggregates with AW and SF respectively ranging from 0 to 50%. The ANFIS computation toolbox in MATLAB software was adopted for the model simulation, testing, training and validation of the response function using hybrid method of optimization and grid partition method of FIS at 100 Epochs. The compressive strength behavior is the target response, and the mixture variations of cement-AW and fine aggregates-SF combinations were used as the independent variables. The ANFIS-model performance assessment results obtained using loss function criteria demonstrates MAE of 0.1318, RMSE of 0.412, and coefficient of determination value of 99.57% which indicates a good relationship between the predicted and actual results while multiple linear regression (MLR) model presents a coefficient of determination of 82.46%.