Prediction of settlement of shallow foundations on reinforced soils using neural networks

Geosynthetics International

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 161-170

  Soleimanbeigi, Ali ^a   Hataf, N ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Geosynthetics; Reinforcement; Settlement; Shallow foundation

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BEARING CAPACITY; FOUNDATIONS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REINFORCEMENT; SETTLEMENT OF STRUCTURES;

REINFORCED COHESIONLESS SOILS; SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS;

SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACK PROPAGATION; FOUNDATION; GEOSYNTHETICS; REINFORCED EARTH; SOIL REINFORCEMENT;

GEOSYNTHETICS; NEURAL NETWORK; SOIL BURIAL TEST; SOIL REINFORCEMENT;

EID: 33847646370     PISSN: 10726349     EISSN: 10726349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/gein.2006.13.4.161     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Adams, M.T. & Collin, J. G. (1997). Large model spread footing load tests on geosynthetic reinforced soil foundations. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 123, No. 1, 66-72.
2. Akinmusuru, J. O. & Akinbolade, J. A. (1981). Stability of loaded footings on reinforced soil. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering Division, ASCE, 107, No. 6, 819-827.
3. Binquet, J. & Lee, K. L. (1975a). Bearing capacity tests on reinforced earth slabs. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering Division, ASCE, 101, No. 12, 1241-1255.
4. Binquet, J. & Lee, K. L. (1975b). Bearing capacity analysis on reinforced earth slabs. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering Division, ASCE, 101, No. 12, 1257-1276.
5. Boushehrian, H. J. & Hataf, N. (2003). Experimental and numerical investigation of the bearing capacity of model circular and ring footings on reinforced sand. Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 21, No. 4, 241-256.
6. Bowels, J. E. (1997). Foundation Analysis and Design, 5th edn. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1175 pp.
7. Eberhart, R. C. & Dobbins, R. W. (1990). Neural Network PC Tools: A Practical Guide. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
8. Ellis, G. W., Yao, C., Zhao, R. & Penumadu, D. (1995). Stress-strain modeling of sands using artificial neural networks. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, 121, No. 5, 429-435.
9. Fausett, L. V. (1994). Fundamentals of Neural Networks: Architecture, Algorithms, and Applications. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
10. Fragaszy, R. J. & Lawton, E. (1984). Bearing capacity of reinforced sand subgrades. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, 110, No. 10, 1500-1507.
11. French, S. E. (1999). Design of Shallow Foundations. ASCE Press, Reston, VA, USA, 374 pp.
12. Ghaboussi, J., Garrett, J. H. Jr & Wu, X. (1991). Knowledge-based modeling of material behavior with neural networks. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 117, No. 1, 132-153.
13. Goh, A.T.C. (1996). Pile driving records reanalyzed using neural networks. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, 122, No. 6, 492-495.
14. Guido, V. A., Chang, D. K. & Sweeney, M. A. (1986). Comparison of geogrid and geotextile reinforced slabs. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 23, No. 1, 435-440.
15. Hecht-Nielsen, R. (1990). Neurocomputing. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.
16. Hornik, K., Stinchcombe, M. & White, H. (1989). Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators. Neural Networks, 2, No. 5, 359-366.
17. Huang, C. C. & Hong, L. L. (2000). Ultimate bearing capacity and settlement of footings on reinforced sandy ground. Soils and Foundations, 40, No. 5, 65-73.
18. Huang, C. C. and Menq, F. Y. (1997). Deep-footing and wide-slab effects in reinforced sandy ground. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 123, No. 1, 30-36.
19. Huang, C. C. & Tatsuoka, F. (1990). Bearing capacity of reinforced horizontal sandy ground. Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 9, No. 1, 51-82.
20. Khing, K. H., Das, B. M., Puri, V. K., Cook, E. E. & Yen, S. C. (1992). Bearing capacity of two closely-spaced strip foundations on geogrid-reinforced sand. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Earth Reinforcement Practice, Fukuoka, Japan, pp. 619-624.
21. Khing, K. H., Das, B. M., Puri, V. K., Cook, E. E. & Yen, S. C. (1993). The bearing capacity of a strip foundation on geogrid-reinforced sand. Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 12, No. 4, 351-361.
22. Kurian, N. P. (1992). Design of Foundation Systems: Principles and Practices. Addison-Wesley, Singapore, pp. 64-67.
23. Lawton, E. C. (1995). Section 5A: Nongrouting techniques. In Practical Foundation Handbook (ed. R. W. Brown) McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 5.3-5.400.
24. Martin, T. H., Howard, B. D. & Mark, B. (1995). Neural Network Design. PWS Publishing Company, Boston MA.
25. Masters, T. (1993). Practical Neural Network Recipes in C++. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
26. Nanian, P. K., Beena, K. S. & Kumar, R. K. (1997). Settlement of reinforced sand in foundations. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 123, No. 9, 818-827.
27. Omar, M. T., Das, B. M., Yen, S. C., Puri, V. K. & Cook, E. E. (1993a). Ultimate bearing capacity of rectangular foundations on geogrid-reinforced sand. Geotechnical Testing Journal, 16, No. 2, 246-252.
28. Omar, M. T., Das, B. M., Puri, V. K. & Yen, S. C. (1993b). Ultimate bearing capacity of shallow foundations on sand with geogrid reinforcement. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 30, No. 3, 545-549.
29. Rumelhart, D. E. & McClelland, J. L. (1986). Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure Of Cognition, Vols. 1 and 2. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
30. Rumelhart, D. E., Hinton, G. E. & Williams R. J. (1986). Learning representations by backpropagation error. Nature, 323, No. 9, 533-536.
31. Schmertmann, J. H. (1970). Static cone to compute static settlement over sand. Journal of Soil Mechanics and Foundations, ASCE, 96, No. 3, 1032-1043.
32. Shahin, M. A., Maier, H. R. & Jaksa, M. B. (2002). Predicting settlement of shallow foundations using neural networks. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 128, No. 9, 785-793.
33. Soleimanbeigi, A. & Hataf, N. (2005). Predicting ultimate bearing capacity of shallow foundations on reinforced cohesionless soils using artificial neural networks. Geosynthetics International, 12, No. 6, 321-332.
34. Stone, M. (1974). Cross-validatory choice and assessment of statistical predictions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, 36, No. 2, 111-147.
35. Timoshenko, S. & Goodier, J. N. (1951). Theory of Elasticity, 2nd edn. McGraw-Hill, New York, 506 pp.
36. Trofimenkov, Y. G. (1994). Determining the bearing capacity of piles from a small number of static tests. Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, 31, No. 6, 192-194.
37. Yetimoglu, T., Wu, J. T. H. & Saglamer, A. (1994). Bearing capacity of rectangular footings on geogrid-reinforced sand. Journal Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, 120, No. 12, 2083-2099.