The qualitative identification to determine the origin (i.e. manufacturing factory) of Portuguese clinkers is described. The classification of clinkers produced in different factories can be based on their trace element content. Approximately 24 clinker sorts were analysed, collected from all Portuguese cement factories to determine their Mg, Sr, Ba, Mn, Ti, Zr, Zn and V content. An expert system can be formulated by crisp or fuzzy decision tree designed based on the collected data. The performance of the obtained classifiers was measured by ten-fold cross validation. The results show that the proposed methods are useful to identify easy-to-use expert systems that are able to determine the origin of the clinker based on its trace element content.

  • INTRODUCTION

  • DECISION TREES

  • SUPERVISED CLUSTERING AND FUZZY DECISION TREE INDUCTION

  • APPLICATION

  • CONCLUSIONS

  • REFERENCES

This content is only available via PDF.
You do not currently have access to this chapter.
Don't already have an account? Register

Purchased this content as a guest? Enter your email address to restore access.

Please enter valid email address.
Email address must be 94 characters or fewer.