Estimation of Groundwater Seepage Risks into Tunnel Using Radial Basis Function Networks

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1 Department of Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran.

2 Department of surveying and Geomatics Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

In this study, Site Groundwater Rating (SGR) in the Amirkabir tunnel has been estimated using Radial Basis Function Networks (RBFNs). SGR is the first rating method that by considering the parameters like joint frequency, joint aperture, schistosity, crashed zones, karstification, soil permeability coefficient, tunnel location in the water table or piezometric surface, and the amount and intensity of annual raining in the area, classifies the tunnel path from the risk of groundwater seepage point of view. In this article, using an RBFN, an estimation of SGR along the Amirkabir tunnel path was performed. Field data obtained from primary studies in the tunnel was used to train and test the prepared network. For the testing set, modeling results showed that SGR could be predicted with the mean error of 3.57% and 4.76% using radial basis network and exact radial basis network functions, respectively. A High correlation between the SGR of the tunnel path and the network answers, confirmed the prepared RBFN.

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Irrigation Sciences and Engineering
Volume 45, Issue 2
June 2022
Pages 109-124

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  • Receive Date: 24 May 2021
  • Revise Date: 10 September 2022
  • Accept Date: 11 September 2022
  • Publish Date: 22 June 2022

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