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    Advancing Masonry Engineering: Effective Prediction of Prism Strength via Machine Learning Techniques
    (2026-04-01)
    Saingam, Panumas
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    Chatveera, Burachat
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    Nawaz, Adnan
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    Ali, Muhammad Hassan
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    Choudhary, Sandeerah
    Masonry buildings have shaped construction history since about 6500 BCE. They offer durability, strength, and cost effectiveness, especially in developing countries. Yet assessing compressive strength during construction remains challenging due to the constituent materials soil, cement, and stone, complicating standardization worldwide. In the present study, an innovative model based on a machine learning algorithm is put forth to predict the compressive strengths of prisms. Some important factors considered as input to the algorithm based on traditional methods are the brick and mortar strengths, prism geometry, mortar bed thickness, and empirically derived height-to-thickness (t) (h/t) ratios. Three different ANN algorithms are coded and trained on the input data, and they are based on the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm, the resilient backpropagation algorithm, and the conjugate gradient algorithm. The optimal ANN model trained using the conjugate gradient Polak–Ribière algorithm (traincgp) achieves superior performance, with R<sup>2</sup> = 0.9881, R<sup>2</sup> = 0.9927, RMSE = 0.9914 MPa, MAE = 0.6039 MPa, MAPE = 20.9141%, VAF = 0.9881, and WI = 0.9970. Sensitivity analysis shows the height-to-thickness (h/t) ratio is the dominant influence on compressive strength, consistent with structural mechanics. The primary contributions are the systematically curated, richly parameterized dataset and its use to produce robust, physically interpretable predictions with established ANN methods.
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    Predicting Flexural Strength of FRP-Strengthened Waste Aggregate Concrete Beams with Machine Learning: A Step Towards Sustainability
    (2026-04-01)
    Sangthongtong, Arissaman
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    Chatveera, Burachat
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    Sua-iam, Gritsada
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    Nawaz, Adnan
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    Mehmood, Tahir
    Using waste materials in the manufacture of concrete has many environmental advantages. However, it can be difficult to estimate structural performance, especially when beams are reinforced with fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP). In order to provide a data-driven approach to sustainable structural design, this work explores the use of machine learning (ML) approaches to forecast the flexural strength of FRP-strengthened waste aggregate concrete beams. A total number of 92 experimental datasets were used to develop and assess four ML algorithms: Random Forest (RF), Decision Tree (DT), Neural Network (NN), and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost). Regression plots, Taylor diagrams, statistical measures (R2R^2R2, RMSE, MAE, MSE), and explainable AI (XAI) tools, including SHAP, LIME, and partial dependence plots (PDPs), were used to evaluate the model’s performance. RF outperformed NN in terms of predictive accuracy, while XGBoost exhibited similar performance to RF. The most significant predictors, according to a SHAP analysis, were beam length and fiber length, with the lower followed by steel tensile strength, fiber width, and concrete compressive strength. LIME offered local interpretability for individual predictions, but PDPs demonstrated optimal parameter ranges and a nonlinear feature strength relationship. The findings provide engineers with a strong decision-support tool for designing green infrastructure, since they show that ensemble-based models can accurately represent the intricate, nonlinear dynamics controlling flexural behavior in sustainable FRP-strengthened waste aggregate concrete beams.