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http://dx.doi.org/10.9720/kseg.2020.4.457

A Prediction of N-value Using Artificial Neural Network  

Kim, Kwang Myung (Execution Risk Management Team, Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd.)
Park, Hyoung June (Execution Risk Management Team, Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd.)
Goo, Tae Hun (Execution Risk Management Team, Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd.)
Kim, Hyung Chan (Execution Risk Management Team, Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd.)
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The Journal of Engineering Geology / v.30, no.4, 2020 , pp. 457-468 More about this Journal
Abstract
Problems arising during pile design works for plant construction, civil and architecture work are mostly come from uncertainty of geotechnical characteristics. In particular, obtaining the N-value measured through the Standard Penetration Test (SPT) is the most important data. However, it is difficult to obtain N-value by drilling investigation throughout the all target area. There are many constraints such as licensing, time, cost, equipment access and residential complaints etc. it is impossible to obtain geotechnical characteristics through drilling investigation within a short bidding period in overseas. The geotechnical characteristics at non-drilling investigation points are usually determined by the engineer's empirical judgment, which can leads to errors in pile design and quantity calculation causing construction delay and cost increase. It would be possible to overcome this problem if N-value could be predicted at the non-drilling investigation points using limited minimum drilling investigation data. This study was conducted to predicted the N-value using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) which one of the Artificial intelligence (AI) method. An Artificial Neural Network treats a limited amount of geotechnical characteristics as a biological logic process, providing more reliable results for input variables. The purpose of this study is to predict N-value at the non-drilling investigation points through patterns which is studied by multi-layer perceptron and error back-propagation algorithms using the minimum geotechnical data. It has been reviewed the reliability of the values that predicted by AI method compared to the measured values, and we were able to confirm the high reliability as a result. To solving geotechnical uncertainty, we will perform sensitivity analysis of input variables to increase learning effect in next steps and it may need some technical update of program. We hope that our study will be helpful to design works in the future.
Keywords
N-value; pile; artificial intelligence (AI); artificial neural network (ANN); multi-layer perceptron; error back-propagation algorithm;
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