A new approach for prediction of the stability of soil and rock slopes

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 878-893

  Ahangar Asr, Alireza ^a   Faramarzi, Asaad ^a   Javadi, Akbar A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geological analysis; Programming and algorithm theory; Rocks; Slope deflection method; Soils; Stability (control theory)

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF STABILITY; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BUILDING PROCESS; CIVIL ENGINEERING STRUCTURES; DATA-DRIVEN METHODS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DEVELOPED MODEL; EARTH DAM; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING; FACTOR OF SAFETY; FIELD DATA; GEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARE METHODS; NEW APPROACHES; POLYNOMIAL REGRESSION; POLYNOMIAL STRUCTURE; PROGRAMMING AND ALGORITHM THEORY; ROCK SLOPE; SLOPE-DEFLECTION METHOD; SLOPE-STABILITY PROBLEMS; STABILITY (CONTROL THEORY); STABILITY OF SLOPES; UNIFIED APPROACH;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; CONTROL THEORY; DAMS; DATA MINING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROCKS; SAFETY FACTOR; SOILS; SYSTEM THEORY;

SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 78049494197     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644401011073700     Document Type: Article

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