Abstract
This paper introduces a developed method of an artificial neural networks (ANN) architecture for estimating the residual strength of clay soil. To implement this purpose, a database of input soil parameters is built, including liquid limit, plasticity index, A-line value, clay fraction, massive minerals, mica, kaolinite, and smectite, in which the output is the residual friction angle. The ANN model was developed by extensively analyzing a number of hidden layers and number of neurons in every layer, incorporating a statistical investigation of the model performance. The obtained results indicate that the ANN model is an outperformed and promising method based on various well-known indicators such as correlation coefficient, mean absolute error, and root mean square error. The achieved ANN model also gives higher estimation accuracy than those results in the literature. Finally, partial dependence plot 2-D was used for sensitivity analysis within the ANN algorithm to investigate the effect of coupled input variables on the estimated residual friction angle of the soil. It was found that A-line value, clay fraction, and massive minerals are the most important input parameters influencing the residual friction angle.












Similar content being viewed by others
Explore related subjects
Discover the latest articles, news and stories from top researchers in related subjects.Availability of data and material
Data will be made available on request.
References
Das SK, Basudhar PK (2008) Prediction of residual friction angle of clays using artificial neural network. Eng Geol 100:142–145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2008.03.001
Bromhead EN (1979) Simple ring shear apparatus. Ground Eng. https://doi.org/10.1016/0148-9062(80)90043-1
Lupini JF, Skinner AE, Vaughan PR (1981) The drained residual strength of cohesive soils. Geotechnique 31:181–213. https://doi.org/10.1680/geot.1981.31.2.181
Voight B (1973) Correlation between Atterberg plasticity limits and residual shear strength of natural soils. Geotechnique. https://doi.org/10.1680/geot.1973.23.2.265
Skempton AW (1964) Long-term stability of clay slopes. Géotechnique 14:77–102. https://doi.org/10.1680/geot.1964.14.2.77
Popescu ME (1984) Foundation analysis and design. Eng Geol 20:269. https://doi.org/10.1016/0013-7952(84)90010-3
Mesri G, Cepeda-Diaz AF (1986) Residual shear strength of clays and shales. Geotechnique 36:269–274. https://doi.org/10.1680/geot.1986.36.2.269
Stark TD, Choi H, McCone S (2005) Drained shear strength parameters for analysis of landslides. J Geotech Geoenviron Eng 131:575–588. https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)1090-0241(2005)131:5(575)
Stark TD, Eid HT (1994) Drained residual strength of cohesive soils. J Geotech Eng 120:856–871. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9410(1994)120:5(856)
Collotta T, Cantoni R, Pavesi U, Ruberl E, Moretti PC (1989) A correlation between residual friction angle, gradation and the index properties of cohesive soils. Geotechnique 39:343–346. https://doi.org/10.1680/geot.1989.39.2.343
Wesley LD (2003) Residual strength of clays and correlations using Atterberg limits. Geotechnique 53:669–672. https://doi.org/10.1680/geot.2003.53.7.669
Sridharan A, Raghuveer Rao P (2004) Discussion: residual strength of clays and correlation using Atterberg limits. Géotechnique 54:503–504. https://doi.org/10.1680/geot.2004.54.7.503
Kaya A, Kwong JK (2007) Evaluation of common practice empirical procedures for residual friction angle of soils: Hawaiian amorphous material rich colluvial soil case study. Eng Geol 92:49–58
Kaya A (2009) Residual and fully softened strength evaluation of soils using artificial neural networks. Geotech Geol Eng 27:281–288
Khan SZ, Suman S, Pavani M, Das SK (2016) Prediction of the residual strength of clay using functional networks. Geosci Front 7:67–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2014.12.008
Kaya A (2010) Revisiting correlations between index properties and residual friction angle of natural soils using artificial neural networks. Geomech Geoeng Int J 5:109–116
Riahi-Madvar H, Gholami M, Gharabaghi B, Seyedian SM (2021) A predictive equation for residual strength using a hybrid of subset selection of maximum dissimilarity method with Pareto optimal multi-gene genetic programming. Geosci Front 12:101222
Tiwari B, Marui H (2005) A new method for the correlation of residual shear strength of the soil with mineralogical composition. J Geotech Geoenviron Eng 131:1139–1150
Egidio LN, Hansson A, Wahlberg B (2021) Learning the Step-size Policy for the Limited-Memory Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno Algorithm. ArXiv201001311 Cs Math Stat.
Liu DC, Nocedal J (1989) On the limited memory BFGS method for large scale optimization. Math Program 45:503–528. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01589116
Asteris PG, Skentou AD, Bardhan A, Samui P, Pilakoutas K (2021) Predicting concrete compressive strength using hybrid ensembling of surrogate machine learning models. Cem Concr Res 145:106449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2021.106449
Thilakarathna PSM, Seo S, Baduge KSK, Lee H, Mendis P, Foliente G (2020) Embodied carbon analysis and benchmarking emissions of high and ultra-high strength concrete using machine learning algorithms. J Clean Prod 262:121281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121281
Golafshani EM, Rahai A, Sebt MH, Akbarpour H (2012) Prediction of bond strength of spliced steel bars in concrete using artificial neural network and fuzzy logic. Constr Build Mater 36:411–418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2012.04.046
Wang X, Liu Y, Xin H (2021) Bond strength prediction of concrete-encased steel structures using hybrid machine learning method. Structures 32:2279–2292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2021.04.018
Karsoliya S (2012) Approximating number of hidden layer neurons in multiple hidden layer BPNN architecture. Int J Eng Trends Technol 3:714–717
Xu S, Chen L (2008) A novel approach for determining the optimal number of hidden layer neurons for FNN’s and its application in data mining, presented at the 5th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA 2008), Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Jun. 2008. http://www.icita.org/. Accessed 2 July 2022
Ly H-B, Nguyen T-A, Tran VQ (2021) Development of deep neural network model to predict the compressive strength of rubber concrete. Constr Build Mater 301:124081
Zhang H, Li R, Cai Z, Gu Z, Heidari AA, Wang M, Chen H, Chen M (2020) Advanced orthogonal moth flame optimization with Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno algorithm: framework and real-world problems. Expert Syst Appl 159:113617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113617
Chou J-S, Tsai C-F, Pham A-D, Lu Y-H (2014) Machine learning in concrete strength simulations: multi-nation data analytics. Constr Build Mater 73:771–780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2014.09.054
Kang M-C, Yoo D-Y, Gupta R (2021) Machine learning-based prediction for compressive and flexural strengths of steel fiber-reinforced concrete. Constr Build Mater 266:121117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.121117
Paneiro G, Rafael M (2021) Artificial neural network with a cross-validation approach to blast-induced ground vibration propagation modeling. Undergr Space 6:281–289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.undsp.2020.03.002
Friedman JH (2001) Greedy function approximation: a gradient boosting machine. Ann Stat 29:1189–1232
Haddad R, Haddad M (2021) Predicting fiber-reinforced polymer–concrete bond strength using artificial neural networks: a comparative analysis study. Struct Concr 22:38–49
Wang X, Liu Y, Xin H (2021b) Bond strength prediction of concrete-encased steel structures using hybrid machine learning method. In: Structures. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 2279–2292.
Nguyen QH, Ly H-B, Ho LS, Al-Ansari N, Le HV, Tran VQ, Prakash I, Pham BT (2021) Influence of data splitting on performance of machine learning models in prediction of shear strength of soil. Math Probl Eng 2021:e4832864. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/4832864
Sheela KG, Deepa SN (2013) Review on methods to fix number of hidden neurons in neural networks. Math Probl Eng 2013:e425740. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/425740
Cachim PB (2011) Using artificial neural networks for calculation of temperatures in timber under fire loading. Constr Build Mater 25:4175–4180
Kişi Ö (2009) Neural networks and wavelet conjunction model for intermittent streamflow forecasting. J Hydrol Eng 14:773–782
Zounemat-Kermani M, Kisi O, Rajaee T (2013) Performance of radial basis and LM-feed forward artificial neural networks for predicting daily watershed runoff. Appl Soft Comput 13:4633–4644
Pedregosa F, Varoquaux G, Gramfort A, Michel V, Thirion B, Grisel O, Blondel M, Prettenhofer P, Weiss R, Dubourg V, Vanderplas J, Passos A, Cournapeau D, Brucher M, Perrot M, Duchesnay E (2011) Scikit-learn: machine learning in Python. J Mach Learn Res 12:2825–2830
Wu TH, Sangrey DA (1978) Strength properties and their measurement. Transportation Research Board Special Report
Funding
This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding authors
Ethics declarations
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
Additional information
Publisher's Note
Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Tran, V.Q., Dang, V.Q., Do, H.Q. et al. Investigation of ANN architecture for predicting residual strength of clay soil. Neural Comput & Applic 34, 19253–19268 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-022-07547-0
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-022-07547-0