Direct expressions for linearization of shear strength envelopes given by the Generalized Hoek-Brown criterion using genetic programming

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 44, Issue , 2012, Pages 139-146

  Shen, Jiayi ^a   Karakus, Murat ^a   Xu, Chaoshui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Generalized Hoek Brown; Genetic programming; Mohr Coulomb; Rock mass; Shear strength

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; FAILURE CRITERIA; HOEK-BROWN; HOEK-BROWN CRITERION; LIMIT EQUILIBRIUM; LINEAR MOHR COULOMBS; MATHEMATICAL DERIVATION; MOHR-COULOMB; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; RANDOM SET; ROCK MASS; ROCK SLOPE; ROCK SLOPE STABILITY; SHEAR STRENGTH REDUCTION; STRENGTH ENVELOPE; SYMBOLIC REGRESSION;

GENETIC PROGRAMMING; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SHEAR STRENGTH;

SLOPE STABILITY;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DATA SET; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROCK MECHANICS; SHEAR STRENGTH; SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 84860993302     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2012.04.008     Document Type: Article

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