Estimation of parameters in geotechnical backanalysis - II. Application to a tunnel excavation problem

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-46

  Gens, A ^a   Ledesma, A ^a   Alonso, E E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOTECHNICAL PARAMETERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; TUNNELLING;

ALGORITHMS; CLAY; CONSOLIDATION; ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

GEOTECHNICAL BACKANALYSIS; OVERCONSOLIDATED CLAY;

SOIL MECHANICS;

EID: 0029669310     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0266-352X(95)00022-3     Document Type: Article

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1. Ledesma, A., Gens, A. & Alonso, E. E., Estimation of parameters in geotechnical backanalysis - I. Maximum likelihood approach. Computers and Geotech., 18 (1996) 1-27.
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3. Marquardt, D. W., An algorithm for least-squares estimation of nonlinear parameters. J. Soc. Ind. Appl. Math., 11 (1963) 431-441.
4. Ledesma, A., Identificación de parámetros en Geotecnia. Aplicación a la excavación de túneles. Ph.D. thesis, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, 1987.