Formulation of soil angle of shearing resistance using a hybrid GP and OLS method

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-53

  Mousavi, Seyyed Mohammad ^a   Alavi, Amir Hossein ^b   Mollahasani, Ali ^d   Gandomi, Amir Hossein ^c   Arab Esmaeili, Milad ^e  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c The University of Akron   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Effective angle of shearing resistance; Genetic programming; Hybridization; Orthogonal least squares; Soil physical properties

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION PROCESS; CLASSICAL APPROACH; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTAL DATABASE; HYBRID METHOD; HYBRIDIZATION; LEAST SQUARE REGRESSION; NON-LINEAR MODEL; ORTHOGONAL LEAST SQUARES; ORTHOGONAL LEAST SQUARES ALGORITHM; PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; PREDICTION MODEL; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION MODEL; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SHEARING RESISTANCE; SOIL PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SOIL SAMPLE; STATISTICAL MEASURES;

GENETIC PROGRAMMING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHEARING;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

EID: 84872299517     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: 14355663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00366-011-0242-x     Document Type: Article

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