Shear strength estimation of plastic clays with statistical and neural approaches

Building and Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 849-860

  Goktepe, A Burak ^a   Altun, Selim ^b   Altintas, Gokhan ^c   Tan, Ozcan ^d  

^a Akkoy Dam and HEPP   (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEARING CAPACITY; CONSOLIDATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SHEAR STRENGTH; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PLASTIC CLAY; SOIL INDEX PROPERTIES;

CLAY;

BEARING CAPACITY; CLAY; CONSOLIDATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SHEAR STRENGTH; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BEARING CAPACITY; CLAY SOIL; CONSOLIDATION; CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL TYPE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRIAXIAL TEST;

EID: 37549058421     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2007.01.022     Document Type: Article

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