This research focuses on the application of three soft computing techniques including Minimax Probability Machine Regression (MPMR), Particle Swarm Optimization based Artificial Neural Network (ANN-PSO) and Adaptive Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS-PSO) to study shallow foundation reliability settlement criteria. Soil is a heterogeneous medium involvement its attributes for geotechnical behaviour ...

The consequences to structures caused by permanent fault displacement have been investigated for dip-slip faulting, but not the effect of embedment depth on interaction between a normal rupture and shallow embedded foundation. This study foundation using numerical model validated with centrifuge experiments. It was found that gapping mechanism distress occurred at different positions relative o...

FOREWORD This research project was performed to investigate the possibility that, by measuring the dynamic response characteristics of a bridge substructure, it might be possible to determine the condition and safety of the substructure and identify its foundation type (shallow or deep). Determining bridge foundation conditions with this approach may be applied to quantify losses in foundation ...

The load-deformation observation under the footing is essential for foundation design. Either experimental methods or numerical modelling generally determines this phenomenon in engineering practices. This study determined settlement of shallow foundations on Multi-layer soil profile numerically. behavior was investigated through with Plaxis 2D. site Jamshoro region, located province Sindh, Pak...

Recent investigations have shown that the influences of Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) may be detrimental to the seismic response of structure, and hence neglecting this phenomenon in analysis and design may lead to an un-conservative design. The objective of this paper is to quantify the effects of nonlinear soil-structure interaction on the seismic response of a low-rise special moment fram...

A bar-slider framework is a bar-joint framework a part of whose joints are constrained by using line-sliders. Such joints are allowed to move only along the sliders. Streinu and Theran proposed a combinatorial characterization of the infinitesimal rigidity of generic bar-slider frameworks in two dimensional space. In this paper we propose a generalization of their result. In particular, we prov...

Several previous studies have suggested that basic decoding skills may develop less effectively in English than in some other European orthographies. The origins of this effect in the early (foundation) phase of reading acquisition are investigated through assessments of letter knowledge, familiar word reading, and simple nonword reading in English and 12 other orthographies. The results confir...