Modeling of soil behavior with a recurrent neural network

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 858-872

  Zhu, Jian Hua ^a,c   Zaman, Musharraf M ^a   Anderson, Scott A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Modeling; Neural network; Prediction; Shear tests; Simulation; Soil behavior

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS; SHEAR STRENGTH;

SHEAR TESTS; SOIL BEHAVIOR;

SOIL MECHANICS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; SAND; SHEAR TEST; SOIL TEST;

EID: 0032194440     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/t98-042     Document Type: Article

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