Abstract

Vege block is a building or construction block manufactured from the mixture of sand aggregates and waste cooking oil as a sustainable binder. This study explores the use of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) in the prediction of the compressive strength. Nine ANN models were developed with different hidden neurons ranges from 7-15 and it performances were tested after properly trained using the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and coefficient of determination(R-square) and correlation coefficient (r). The result shows that model with 8 hidden neurons show a better performance.

Keywords:

Artificial neural network, compressive strength, linear regression, waste cooking oil,

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