soil parameters identification; inverse analysis; optimization; genetic algorithm; principal component analysis; finite element method; geotechnics; synthetic data
Abstract :
[en] This study concerns the identification of parameters of soil constitutive models from geotechnical measurements by inverse analysis. To deal with the non-uniqueness of the solution, the inverse analysis is based on a genetic algorithm (GA) optimization process. For a given uncertainty on the measurements, the GA identifies a set of solutions. A statistical method based on a principal component analysis (PCA) is, then, proposed to evaluate the representativeness of this set. It is shown that this representativeness is controlled by the GA population size for which an optimal value can be defined. The PCA also gives a first-order approximation of the solution set of the inverse problem as an ellipsoid. These developments are first made on a synthetic excavation problem and on a pressuremeter test. Some experimental applications are, then, studied in a companion paper, to show the reliability of the method.
Disciplines :
Civil engineering
Author, co-author :
Levasseur, Séverine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur GEO3 > Géomécanique et géologie de l'ingénieur
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