Estimation of deformation modulus of rock masses by using fuzzy clustering-based modeling

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1224-1234

  Bashari, Ali ^a   Beiki, Morteza ^b   Talebinejad, Alireza ^b  

^a Iran Ministry of Road Transportation   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

ANFIS; Deformation modulus of rock mass; Fuzzy c means (FCM) clustering; Subtractive clustering

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DEFORMATION; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MODEL STRUCTURES; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS;

ADAPTIVE NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE; ADAPTIVE NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM; BASED MODELLING; DEFORMATION MODULUS; DEFORMATION MODULUS OF ROCK MASS; FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING; NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; ROCK-MASS; SUBTRACTIVE CLUSTERING;

MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEFORMATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MODELING; ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 81955164179     PISSN: 13651609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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