Performance studies on six heuristic global optimization methods in the location of critical slip surface

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 462-484

  Cheng, Y M ^a   Li, L ^a,b   Chi, S C ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Control variable; Critical; Factor of safety; Global optimization; Heuristic

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

CONTROL VARIABLE; CRITICAL SLIP SURFACE; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION;

SLOPE STABILITY;

ALGORITHM; HEURISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SLIP; SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 36348936708     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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