Predicting ultimate bearing capacity of shallow foundations on reinforced cohesionless soils using artificial neural networks

Geosynthetics International

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 321-332

  Soleimanbeigi, A ^a   Hataf, N ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bearing capacity; Geosynthetics; Neural network; Reinforcement; Shallow foundations

Indexed keywords

BEARING CAPACITY; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; REINFORCEMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

FEEDFORWARD BACKPROPAGATION; REINFORCED COHESIONLESS SOILS; SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS;

GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BEARING CAPACITY; GEOSYNTHETICS;

EID: 31744442536     PISSN: 10726349     EISSN: 10726349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/gein.2005.12.6.321     Document Type: Article

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