Stability Analysis of Ring Foundations on Slope Crest: 3D FELA and ANN
摘要
This paper proposed a coupling framework based on finite element limit analysis (FELA) and artificial neural network (ANN) to investigate the bearing capacity of ring foundation on slope crest. Six design parameters are considered, namely (i) geometry of slope: slope angle (β), setback ratio (s/B); (ii) geometry of foundation: radius ratio (ri/ro), embedded depth ratio (D/ro); (iii) strength of soil: internal friction angle (φ), strength ratio (c/γB). The parametric study based on FELA results shows that the increase in D/ro, c/γB, s/B, and φ leads to an increase in the bearing capacity factor (p/γB). Meanwhile, the opposite trend is observed in the correlation between p/γB and the variables β and ri/ro. The failure mechanism is also discussed in detail, considering each design variable’s impact on the development of shear bands. Finally, various ANN models with different structures and activation functions were trained and evaluated using the adaptive moment estimation (Adam) algorithm. The results indicate that the ANN model using the structure 6–27-28–1 and the rectified linear unit function makes the most accurate predictions, with R2 = 0.9894.