Neural network model for the constitutive relations of soil

Abstract

The soil constitutive relation is one of the important issues in soil mechanics. It is very difficult to establish mathematical models because of the complexity of soil mechanical behavior. We propose a new method of neural network analysis for establishing soil constitutive models. Based on triaxial experiments of sand in the laboratory, the nonlinear constitutive models of sand expressed by the neural network were set up. In comparison with Duncan-Chang’s model, the neural network method for sand modeling has been proved to be more convenient, accurate and it has a strong fault-tolerance function.