Based on principal component analysis, the rules of clayey soil's behaviors affected by varied indices were studied. It was discovered that the common method of the single liquidity index IL used to determine the ...Based on principal component analysis, the rules of clayey soil's behaviors affected by varied indices were studied. It was discovered that the common method of the single liquidity index IL used to determine the consistency of silt-clay or silt-loam was not rational. It was more rational that the liquidity index IL combined with the void ratio e characterized the behavior of silt-clay. Similarly the index of e depicted the nature of sandy loam more rationally than IL. The method of predicting the pile shafted resistance by the two indices of e and IL, which was more accurate, was obtained by the methodology of back propagation (BP) artificial neural networks combined with principal component analysis. It was also observed that the pile shaft resistance increased with the increase of depth within a critical affect-depth ranging from 20 to 30 m, and the harder the clayey soil consistency was, the shallower the critical depth was.展开更多
文摘Based on principal component analysis, the rules of clayey soil's behaviors affected by varied indices were studied. It was discovered that the common method of the single liquidity index IL used to determine the consistency of silt-clay or silt-loam was not rational. It was more rational that the liquidity index IL combined with the void ratio e characterized the behavior of silt-clay. Similarly the index of e depicted the nature of sandy loam more rationally than IL. The method of predicting the pile shafted resistance by the two indices of e and IL, which was more accurate, was obtained by the methodology of back propagation (BP) artificial neural networks combined with principal component analysis. It was also observed that the pile shaft resistance increased with the increase of depth within a critical affect-depth ranging from 20 to 30 m, and the harder the clayey soil consistency was, the shallower the critical depth was.
