BackgroundThe construction industry relies heavily on the sand. In construction, the neness modulus of sand is an important parameter. It impacts the relative proportions in the mix, the workability, the economy, the porosity, and the strength of the concrete. This standard speci es that sand's neness modulus should not be less than 2.3 and not more than 3.1. Sand's neness modulus refers to the mean size of its particles.
Methods/Analysis/Findings:There is a remarkable success in predicting various fruits images, grains, vegetables, and soils using convolutional neural networks. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are introduced here as a deep learning-based approach to sand neness modulus value prediction. The CNN algorithm extracts automatic features, so this research was conducted on the latest CNN architecture, ResNet-50. Currently, the sand (FM) is calculated based on laboratory sieve analysis, which is an accurate but time-consuming process. For that, the instance method is necessary to determine the sand's neness modulus. We have proposed a novel image-based model to predict sand FM values. However, sand the neness modulus (FM) can be quickly determined using images, but with low accuracy.
Applications/Improvements:In experiments using our proposed method, we achieved 94.6% accuracy. There is also evidence that the proposed image-based system performs better on each of the ve standard assessment metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall, speci city, and the F-score, when predicting Fineness Modulus (FM) values.