Classification of slopes and prediction of factor of safety using differential evolution neural networks

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 201-210

  Das, Sarat Kumar ^a,b   Biswal, Rajani Kanta ^c   Sivakugan, N ^a   Das, Bitanjaya ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c KIIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Factor of safety; Slope stability; Statistical performance criteria

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; FACTOR OF SAFETY; INPUT PARAMETER; MODEL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION MODEL; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE CRITERIA;

BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SAFETY FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

SLOPE STABILITY;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATABASE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; LAND CLASSIFICATION; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE STABILITY; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80051666629     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-010-0839-1     Document Type: Article

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