The Ranking of Factors Influencing the Behaviour of Light Structures on Expansive Soils in Victoria, Australia | Zendy

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The Ranking of Factors Influencing the Behaviour of Light Structures on Expansive Soils in Victoria, Australia

Author(s) -

N. Y. Osman,

Kerry McManus

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

civil-comp proceedings

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1

H-Index - 11

ISSN - 1759-3433

DOI - 10.4203/ccp.82.56

Subject(s) - expansive clay , expansive , ranking (information retrieval) , soil water , computer science , geology , information retrieval , soil science , materials science , compressive strength , composite material

In this paper a Neural Network Model was used to develop a ranking of the potential damage influences for light structures on expansive soils in Victoria. These influences include geology, Thornthwaite moisture index, vegetation covers, construction foundation type, construction wall type, geographical region and age of building when first inspected. Approximately 400 cases of damage to light structures in Victoria, Australia were considered in this study. Feedforward Backpropagation was adopted to train the data. The ranking of importance was estimated using connection weight approach and then compared to results calculated from sensitivity analysis. From the analysis, the ranking of importance for potential damage factor was noted.

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