Assessment of liquefaction triggering using strain energy concept and ANN model: Capacity Energy

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1056-1072

  Baziar, M H ^a   Jafarian, Y ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Capacity energy; Energy concept; Liquefaction triggering; Neural network

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SAND; STRAIN ENERGY;

CAPACITY ENERGY; LIQUEFACTION RESISTANCE; LIQUEFACTION TRIGGERING;

SOIL LIQUEFACTION;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CORRELATION; DATA SET; LABORATORY METHOD; LIQUEFACTION; SHEAR TEST; SILTY SOIL; STRAIN ANALYSIS; TORSION; TRIAXIAL TEST;

EID: 34748904111     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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