Probabilistic stability analyses of slopes using the ANN-based response surface

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 787-797

  Cho, Sung Eun ^a  

^a Korea Water Resources Corporation   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Probabilistic analysis; Response surface; Slope stability

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; EXPLICIT FORMS; FINITE DIFFERENCES; LIMIT STATE FUNCTIONS; MISSOURIS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL PROCEDURES; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY OF FAILURES; RESPONSE SURFACE; SECOND-ORDER RELIABILITY METHODS; SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTIES; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTIES; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STABILITY ASSESSMENTS; TWO LAYERS;

BACKPROPAGATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SYSTEM STABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SLOPE STABILITY;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE STABILITY; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 64849106854     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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