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Record W4408306368 · doi:10.1016/j.istruc.2025.108547

Predicting shear strength of hollow pretensioned spun precast concrete pile using machine learning models

2025· article· en· W4408306368 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueStructures · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicInnovative concrete reinforcement materials
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
FundersMasdar Institute of Science and Technology
KeywordsPrecast concretePileStructural engineeringShear (geology)Materials scienceShear strength (soil)Geotechnical engineeringEngineeringComposite materialGeology

Abstract

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Pretensioned Spun Precast concrete (SPC) piles have become prevalent for deep foundation systems for their material quality, quick installation, and high uniformity along the length of the pile, which enhances both bearing capacity and overall structural performance. However, the reduced sectional area arising from the hollow core is a concern for SPC pile's overall shear capacity, particularly in the seismic zones . Conversely, concrete strength , high-strength strands and the application of prestressing improves the shear capacity of SPC piles. As a result, the involvement of more complex parameters makes the shear strength prediction complicated. This study explores the intricate domain of predictive modeling for the shear strength of SPC piles, employing twelve data-driven machine learning (ML) algorithms ranging from regression to boosting models. A comprehensive dataset consisting of 243 test results of SPC piles shear strength is meticulously assembled, structured, and employed to train and evaluate ML models. The input characteristics of the proposed ML models include the ratio of effective thickness to the outer diameter, the ratio of shear span to effective depth, the prestressing strand index, the non-prestressing strand index, the effective shear reinforcement index, the strength of the pile concrete, and the total effective axial stress . The SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) analysis was conducted on the best-performing models to assess the influence of individual parameters on SPC piles shear strength and then compared to existing codes and provisions through sensitivity analysis. The outcome shows that XGB yielded the highest prediction accuracy and lowest variation, which outperformed the other mechanical models and code provisions. This study also demonstrates that the shear strength of SPC piles may be enhanced by raising the total effective axial stress, pile concrete strength, and the effective shear reinforcement index. In addition, a graphical user interface (GUI) has been established for the XGB model, which will aid practicing engineers and future studies in accurately forecasting the shear strength of SPC piles in construction applications.

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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)0.000
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: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.256
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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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

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Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.238
Teacher spread0.218 · 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