Inspiration
The Compressive Strength of Concrete determines the quality of Concrete. The strength is determined by a standard crushing test on a concrete cylinder, which requires engineers to build small concrete cylinders with different combinations of raw materials and test these cylinders for strength variations with a change in each raw material.
What it does
The formal 28-day approach of this process consumes a lot of time and labor to prepare different prototypes and test them; the method itself is error-prone and mistakes can cause the wait time to drastically increase. One way of reducing the wait time and reducing the number of combinations to try is to make use of digital simulations, where we can provide information to the computer about what we know and the computer tries different combinations to predict the compressive strength.
How I built it
- Literature scan on concrete design, and utility of a predictive approach
- Analyzed an existing concrete compressive strength database and built a data model to predict the compressive strength of a concrete mixture.
- Built an interface to allow users to enter concrete mixtures and return an estimated strength and an assessment of the uncertainty in the estimate using python.
- Built an interface to allow users to add observations to the underlying database, and automatically update the Data Model to incorporate the new observations
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