Integrated wavelet-learning method for macroscopic mechanical properties prediction of concrete composites with hierarchical random configurations

Abstract

In this research, a novel integrated wavelet-learning approach with high-accuracy and efficient prediction capability is developed to predict the effective elastic properties of concrete composites with hierarchical random configurations and heterogeneous elasticity in multiple spatial scales. The significant contributions of this work include: (1) The random structural heterogeneities and material uncertainties of concrete composites in meso-scale and micro-scale are modeled on the basis of modified authors’ previous researches and Weibull probabilistic model separately. (2) Innovative stochastic three-scale asymptotic homogenization method (STAHM), background grid technique and padding strategy are presented to thoroughly acquire the doubly random geometry and material features of concrete composites with hierarchical random configurations for constructing concrete material databases. (3) The wavelet transform is utilized to preprocess the high-dimensional data features of the material databases, and the wavelet coefficients are employed as the novel input neurons for efficiently establishing more plain wavelet-neural networks that possess increasing capacity and resisting noise for approximating mappings of high complexity and nonlinearity. The numerical experiments and achieved results demonstrate that the integrated wavelet-learning approach is robust for the high-accuracy and efficient prediction of effective elastic properties of concrete materials with random heterogeneity patterns in multiple spatial scales.