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Earthquakes and Structures
  Volume 22, Number 4, April 2022 , pages 401-419
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/eas.2022.22.4.401
 


A novel liquefaction prediction framework for seismically-excited tunnel lining
Payam Shafiei, Mohammad Azadi and Mehran Seyed Razzaghi

 
Abstract
    A novel hybrid extreme machine learning-multiverse optimizer (ELM-MVO) framework is proposed to predict the liquefaction phenomenon in seismically excited tunnel lining inside the sand lens. The MVO is applied to optimize the input weights and biases of the ELM algorithm to improve its efficiency. The tunnel located inside the liquefied sand lens is also evaluated under various near- and far-field earthquakes. The results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method to predict the liquefaction event against the conventional extreme machine learning (ELM) and artificial neural network (ANN) algorithms. The outcomes also indicate that the possibility of liquefaction in sand lenses under far-field seismic excitations is much less than the near-field excitations, even with a small magnitude. Hence, tunnels designed in geographical areas where seismic excitations are more likely to be generated in the near area should be specially prepared. The sand lens around the tunnel also has larger settlements due to liquefaction.
 
Key Words
    Extreme Machine Learning (ELM); Multi-Verse Optimizer (MVO); sand lens; tunnel; liquefaction; near and far-field earthquake
 
Address
Payam Shafiei, Mohammad Azadi and Mehran Seyed Razzaghi:Department of Civil Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
 

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