Very Soft Organic Clay Applied for Road Embankment

Modelling and Optimisation Approach, UNESCO-IHE PhD, Delft, the Netherlands

C. Limsiri

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2008
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040196007
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

In this book strategies for using very soft organic clay as a fill material for road embankment constructions are compared, and an optimisation scheme is presented. Computer programs for simulation of evaporative drying, for simulation of consolidation, and for slope stability calculation were used to analyse clay behaviour. Field and laboratory te

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgement
• Summary
• Samenvatting
• Contents
• 1: Introduction
• 2: Soil improvement methods considered
• 3: Construction equipment and cost analysis
• 4: Optimisation
• 5: Optimisation analysis
• 6: Field test
• 7: Main findings and outlook
• APPENDIX A - PRODUCTION RATE
• APPENDIX B - OWNING AND OPERATING COSTS
• APPENDIX C - NUMERICAL EXAMPLE OF GENETIC ALGORITHMS WITH PENALTY FUNCTION
• APPENDIX D - NUMERICAL EXAMPLE OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK
• APPENDIX E - FSCONBAG SIMULATION
• APPENDIX F - MStab SIMULATION
• APPENDIX G - EVALUATION OF HIDDEN LAYER NODES
• APPENDIX H - SELECTION OF GENETIC ALGORITHMS’ PARAMETERS
• APPENDIX I - RIJPING SIMULATION
• APPENDIX J - DETERMINATION OF COST FUNCTIONS
• About the Author