Designing a fuzzy expert system to predict the concrete mix design

Abstract

The aim of this study is to design a Fuzzy Expert System to determine the concrete mix design. In the civil engineering, the determination of concrete mix design is so difficult and usually results in imprecision. Fuzzy logic is a way to represent a sort of uncertainty which is understandable for human. So, we can use the fuzzy logic to easily determine the concrete mix designs in a descriptive form. The input fields of system are Slump, Maximum Size of Aggregate (D <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">max</sub> ), Concrete Compressive Strength (CCS) and Fineness Modulus (FM). The output fields are quantities of water, Cement, Fine Aggregate (F.A) and Course Aggregate (C.A). The experimental results show that the average error of predicted compressive strength for FIS is 6.43%, the minimum error of which is 4.73%.