title: Back analysis of geomechanical parameters in underground engineering using artificial bee colony.
abstract: Accurate geomechanical parameters are critical in tunneling excavation, design, and supporting. In this paper, a displacements back analysis based on artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is proposed to identify geomechanical parameters from monitored displacements. ABC was used as global optimal algorithm to search the unknown geomechanical parameters for the problem with analytical solution. To the problem without analytical solution, optimal back analysis is time-consuming, and least square support vector machine (LSSVM) was used to build the relationship between unknown geomechanical parameters and displacement and improve the efficiency of back analysis. The proposed method was applied to a tunnel with analytical solution and a tunnel without analytical solution. The results show the proposed method is feasible.
authors.affiliation: School of Civil Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454003, China.
authors.forename: Changxing
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: School of Civil Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454003, China.
authors.forename: Hongbo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: School of Civil Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454003, China.
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001516:Bees; D060388:Support Vector Machine