Modeling the mechanical behavior of railway ballast using artificial neural networks

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1144-1152

  Shahin, Mohamed A ^a,b   Indraratna, Buddhima ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ballast; Modeling; Neural networks; Prediction; Railway; Triaxial tests

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADS (FORCES); MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NEURAL NETWORKS;

MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; RAILWAY BALLAST; TRIAXIAL TESTS;

BALLAST (RAILROAD TRACK);

BALLAST (RAILROAD TRACK); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADS (FORCES); MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; LOADING TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAILWAY; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TRIAXIAL TEST;

EID: 33846957663     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/T06-077     Document Type: Article

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