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Record W4407350247 · doi:10.1038/s41598-025-89530-y

Assessment of compressive strength of eco-concrete reinforced using machine learning tools

2025· article· en· W4407350247 on OpenAlex
Houcine Bentegri, Mohamed Rabehi, Samir Kherfane, T. A. Nahool, Abdelaziz Rabehi, Mawloud Guermoui, Amel Ali Alhussan, Doaa Sami Khafaga, Marwa M. Eid, El‐Sayed M. El‐kenawy

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Bibliographic record

VenueScientific Reports · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicHygrothermal properties of building materials
Canadian institutionsAlchemy (Canada)
FundersPrincess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University
KeywordsCompressive strengthComputer scienceMachine learningArtificial intelligenceComposite materialMaterials science

Abstract

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Predicting the compressive strength of Compressed Earth Blocks (CEB) is a challenging task due to the nonlinear relationships among their diverse components, including cement, clay, sand, silt, and fibers. This study employed PyCaret, an automated machine learning platform, to address this complexity by developing and evaluating predictive models. The analysis demonstrated that fiber content exhibited a strong positive correlation with cement content, with a correlation coefficient of 0.9444, indicating a significant influence on compressive strength. Multiple machine learning algorithms were tested using metrics such as the coefficient of determination (R2), root mean square error (RMSE), and mean absolute error (MAE) to assess model performance. Among these, the Extra Trees Regressor showed the best predictive capability with R2 = 0.9444 (highly accurate predictions), RMSE = 0.4909 (low variability in prediction errors) and MAE = 0.1899 (minimal average prediction error). The results confirm that PyCaret effectively automates the machine learning workflow, enabling accurate modeling of complex material behavior. The Extra Trees Regressor outperformed other algorithms due to its ability to handle highly nonlinear and multivariate datasets, making it particularly well-suited for predicting the compressive strength of CEB. This approach offers a significant advantage over traditional laboratory testing, which is time-consuming and resource-intensive. By incorporating machine learning techniques, especially using PyCaret’s streamlined processes, the prediction of CEB strength becomes more efficient and reliable, providing a practical tool for engineers and researchers in material science.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.048
Threshold uncertainty score0.506

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.262
Teacher spread0.244 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it