A Multifactor Settlement Prediction Method for the Loess Subgrade of a High-Speed Railway Based on Deep Learning
摘要
The post-construction settlement prediction of high-speed railway subgrades in loess areas was improved by developing a multifactor bi-directional long- and short-term memory neural network optimized by attention mechanism (MBiLSTM-AM) model. Environmental factors and geotechnical properties were incorporated to address the limitations of traditional single-factor models, such as the hyperbolic, exponential curve, Asaoka, and grey theory models, which primarily rely on time-dependent data while neglecting temperature, precipitation, and load effect. Model performance was evaluated using on-site measurements and the rolling cross-validation method, comparing the MBiLSTM-AM model against the hyperbolic, multifactor bi-directional long- and short-term memory neural network (MBiLSTM), and a multifactor long- and short-term memory neural network (MLSTM). Results showed that the MBiLSTM-AM model achieved the highest accuracy, with mean coefficients of determination (R2) improvements of 7.90%, 4.98%, and 3.25% over the hyperbolic, MBiLSTM, and MLSTM models, respectively. Combining the MBiLSTM-AM model with the hyperbolic model further enhanced prediction accuracy for longer time series. The study demonstrated that integrating multiple influencing factors with an attention mechanism significantly improved settlement prediction in loess subgrades.