Parameter identification for elasto-plastic modelling of unsaturated soils from pressuremeter tests by parallel modified particle swarm optimization

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 48, Issue , 2013, Pages 293-303

  Zhang, Youliang ^a   Gallipoli, Domenico ^b,d   Augarde, Charles ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barcelona Basic Model (BBM); Hybrid moving boundary particle swarm optimization (hmPSO); Parallel computing; Parameter identification; Pressuremeter test

Indexed keywords

BARCELONA; BASIC MODELS; ELASTO-PLASTIC; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL OPTIMIZATION; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LOCAL MINIMUMS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; MODIFIED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; MOVING BOUNDARIES; PARAMETER VALUES; PRESSUREMETER TESTS; STRAIN CURVES; UNSATURATED SOIL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); SOILS; UNSATURATED POLYMERS;

TESTING;

ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PRESSUREMETER; SOIL MECHANICS;

EID: 84871968311     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2012.08.004     Document Type: Article

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