Estimation of factor of safety of rooted slope using an evolutionary approach

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 64, Issue , 2014, Pages 314-324

  Garg, Akhil ^a   Garg, Ankit ^b   Tai, K ^a   Sreedeep, S ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Evolutionary; FOS prediction; GPTIPS; LS SVM; Multi gene genetic programming

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY; GPTIPS; LS-SVM; MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP; MECHANICAL REINFORCEMENT; MULTI-GENE GENETIC PROGRAMMING; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION (SVR);

GENES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

SAFETY FACTOR;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ESTIMATION METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REINFORCEMENT; ROOT SYSTEM; SAFETY; SLOPE STABILITY; TENSILE STRESS; VECTOR;

EID: 84892838008     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.12.047     Document Type: Article

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