Investigation of ANN Model Containing One Hidden Layer for Predicting Compressive Strength of Concrete with Blast-Furnace Slag and Fly Ash

Table 3

Summary of different ANN characteristics used in this study.

Parameter	Parameter	Description
Fix	Neurons in input layer	8
	Neurons in output layer	1
	Hidden layer activation function	Sigmoid
	Output layer activation function	Linear
	Training algorithm	Conjugate gradient backpropagation with Powell-Beale restarts
	Cost function	Mean square error (MSE)
	Number of hidden layers	1
Investigation	Neurons in hidden layer	Varying 13 different values