An approximate ANN-based solution for convergence of lined circular tunnels in elasto-plastic rock masses with anisotropic stresses

Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-59

  Rafiai, Hosein ^a   Moosavi, Mahdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anisotropic in situ stresses; ANN based solution; Design of Experiments; Elasto plastic rock mass; Finite Difference Method; Lined circular tunnel

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; ANISOTROPIC STRESS; APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; CIRCULAR TUNNELS; DATA BASE; ELASTO-PLASTIC; EXPLICIT FORM; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FUNCTION APPROXIMATION; INSITU STRESS; ROCK MASS; TRAINING ALGORITHMS;

ANISOTROPY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROCK MECHANICS; TUNNELS;

ROCKS;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GROUND CONDITIONS; IN SITU STRESS; ROCK MASS RESPONSE; TUNNEL DESIGN; TUNNELING;

EID: 82855178777     PISSN: 08867798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tust.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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