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Least‐square support vector machine applied to settlement of shallow foundations on cohesionless soils
Author(s) -
Samui Pijush,
Sitharam T. G.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international journal for numerical and analytical methods in geomechanics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.419
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1096-9853
pISSN - 0363-9061
DOI - 10.1002/nag.731
Subject(s) - shallow foundation , embedment , geotechnical engineering , standard penetration test , settlement (finance) , support vector machine , mathematics , engineering , function (biology) , bearing capacity , computer science , liquefaction , machine learning , evolutionary biology , world wide web , payment , biology
This paper examines the potential of least‐square support vector machine (LSVVM) in the prediction of settlement of shallow foundation on cohesionless soil. In LSSVM, Vapnik's ε‐insensitive loss function has been replaced by a cost function that corresponds to a form of ridge regression. The LSSVM involves equality instead of inequality constraints and works with a least‐squares cost function. The five input variables used for the LSSVM for the prediction of settlement are footing width ( B ), footing length ( L ), footing net applied pressure ( P ), average standard penetration test value ( N ) and footing embedment depth ( d ). Comparison between LSSVM and some of the traditional interpretation methods are also presented. LSSVM has been used to compute error bar. The results presented in this paper clearly highlight that the LSSVM is a robust tool for prediction of settlement of shallow foundation on cohesionless soil. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.