Prediction of ultimate bearing capacity of shallow foundations on cohesionless soils: An evolutionary approach

KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 950-957

  Shahnazari, Habib ^a   Tutunchian, Mohammad A ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

cohesionless soils; multigene genetic programming; parametric study; shallow foundations; ultimate bearing capacity

Indexed keywords

A-COEFFICIENT; COHESIONLESS SOIL; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH; EXPERIMENTAL DATABASE; GEOTECHNICAL; LOAD TEST; MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS; SOFTCOMPUTING TECHNIQUES; ULTIMATE BEARING CAPACITY;

FORECASTING; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; SOFT COMPUTING; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

BEARING CAPACITY;

EID: 84865814328     PISSN: 12267988     EISSN: 19763808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12205-012-1651-0     Document Type: Article

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