Mechanical performance of steel, basalt and polyamide fiber-reinforced ultra-high-performance concrete evaluated by experiments and SHAP-based machine learning

Scientific Reports, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-74632-y Mechanical performance of steel, basalt and polyamide fiber-reinforced ultra-high-performance concrete evaluated by experiments and SHAP-based machine learning

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