Optimal reconstruction of constrained janbu method with ADP and non-integral safety factor

Guijie Zhao, Jiayue Sun, Ying Yan and Xiangpeng Xie

Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2023, vol. 457, issue C

Abstract: Notwithstanding the rich research on the slicing method, it is still impossible to accomplish the limit equilibrium analysis of all phases before the evaluation of the safety factor. Bearing this dilemma in view, in this paper, the Janbu method is optimized and reformulated by introducing adaptive dynamic programming (ADP). The fractional average safety factor is no longer used; instead, a sequence of safety factors is used. The critical slip state is chosen as the equilibrium point, the nonlinearity of safety coefficients of adjacent blocks is approximated by the neural network, and the remaining variables and constraints of the system are added to assist in transforming the original redundant safety coefficient evaluation-finding optimal solution problem into a Janbu-qualified cost function. The action network and critic network of ADP accomplish the boundary trajectory solving and safety evaluation, respectively. The validity of the method is verified when the optimized and reorganized framework is applied to solve the critical slip surface of a clay slope.

Keywords: Adaptive dynamic programming(ADP); Janbu method; Limit equilibrium method (LEM); Critical slip surface (CSS) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0096300323003351
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:apmaco:v:457:y:2023:i:c:s0096300323003351

DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2023.128166

Access Statistics for this article

Applied Mathematics and Computation is currently edited by Theodore Simos

More articles in Applied Mathematics and Computation from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().