Strength characteristics modeling of lateritic soils using adaptive neural networks

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 577-582

  Attoh Okine, N O ^a   Fekpe, Edward S K ^b  

^a Florida International University   (United States)

^b BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lateritic soil; Shear strength; Soil

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS; SHEAR STRENGTH;

CALIFORNIA BEARING RATIO (CBR); LATERITIC SOILS;

SOILS;

EID: 0030369601     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-0618(96)00021-9     Document Type: Article

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