Research Article ANeuralNetwork-BasedPredictionofSuperplasticizersEffecton theWorkabilityandCompressiveCharacteristicsofPortland PozzolanaCement-BasedMortars P.Manikandan , 1 V.Vasugi , 1 V.PremKumar , 2 S.Duraimurugan, 3 M.Sankar, 4 A.ChithambarGanesh, 2 andG.SenthilKumaran 5 1 School of Civil Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai Campus, India 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College, Tirupati, India 3 Regional Concrete Manager, Fosroc Chemicals India Private Limited, Chennai, India 4 Regional Formulator, Fosroc Chemicals India Private Limited, Chennai, India 5 Department of Civil Engineering, Copper Belt University, Kitwe, Zambia Correspondence should be addressed to V. Vasugi; vasugi.v@vit.ac.in, V. Prem Kumar; premkumar.v@vidyanikethan.edu, and G. Senthil Kumaran; kumaran.gs@cbu.ac.zm Received 24 June 2022; Revised 12 August 2022; Accepted 17 August 2022; Published 16 May 2023 Academic Editor: Temel Varol Copyright©2023P.Manikandanetal.TisisanopenaccessarticledistributedundertheCreativeCommonsAttributionLicense, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Portland Pozzolana Cement (PPC) mortars are predominantly employed in plastering works to achieve better workability, superior surface fnish, and higher fneness to ofer better cohesion with fne aggregates than the ordinary Portland cement (OPC) mortars. To achieve high performance in the cement mortar similar to cement concrete, the addition of a superplasticizer is recommended. Te present study investigates the impact of addition of sulphonated naphthalene formaldehyde- (SNF)-based (0.5%, 0.6%, 0.7%, and 0.8%) andlignosulphate-(LS)-based(0.2%,0.3%,0.4%,and0.5%)superplasticizersontheworkabilityandcompressivestrengthcharacteristics ofPPCmortars.Plasteringmortarsofratio1:4werepreparedwithnaturalsandandmanufacturingsand(Msand)as fneaggregates.A fow table test was conducted on all the mortar mix proportions, and the efects of the inclusion of superplasticizers on fow properties wererecordedatdiferenttimeintervals(0,30,60,90,and120minutes).PPCmortarcubeswereprepared,cured,andexaminedtoassess theinclusionofchemicaladmixturesoncompressivestrengthatdiferentages(1,3,7,14,and28days).Teexperimental fndings from the workability and compressive strength of PPC mortars were analyzed, and the corresponding results were predicted using artifcial intelligence.Experimentalinvestigationsdemonstratedthatthedesiredfowcharacteristicsandhighercompressivestrengthresultswere achieved from a 0.7% dosage of ligno-based superplasticizer. Te predicted workability and compressive strength results at various ages acquired by implementing an Artifcial Neural Network (ANN) were found to be in close agreement with the experimental results. 1.Introduction Cement mortar is considered to be one of the typical and cheaper building materials employed in the feld of con- struction technology. When cement material is utilized for producing mortar for plastering work, it is termed as cement plaster. Cement plaster is essential in bonding internal and external coats between the concrete surface and painting. Cement plaster is the blend of ordinary Portland cement/ Portland Pozzolana cement/Portland slag cement, fne aggregates, and water in adequate proportions that are usually applied to masonry, exteriors, and interiors to obtain a smooth surface fnish[1].Cementmortarfndsanextensiveapplication in plastering work, building masonry units, damaged concrete repairing, leveling the foor, patching work, fller materials in ferrocement, and developing precast materials and damp proofng materials [2]. Both OPC and PPC-based mortar mixes are widely employed in construction practices because of their ad- vantages and disadvantages. Tese days, PPC-based mortar Hindawi Advances in Materials Science and Engineering Volume 2023, Article ID 2605414, 14 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/2605414