Implementation of ANN-based rock failure criteria in numerical simulations

Harmonising Rock Engineering and the Environment - Proceedings of the 12th ISRM International Congress on Rock Mechanics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 501-506

  Rafiai, H ^a   Jafari, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Neural network; Numerical modelling

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; CIRCULAR TUNNELS; DUCTILE FAILURES; EXPLICIT FORMULATION; FAILURE CRITERIA; HOEK-BROWN; IN-SITU STRESS FIELD; INDIANA; INSTANTANEOUS VALUE; MOHR COULOMB CRITERION; MOHR-COULOMB; NUMERICAL MODELLING; RELATIVE ACCURACY; ROCK FAILURES; TRIAXIAL COMPRESSION TESTS;

COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STRESSES;

ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 84856728545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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