Future of machine learning in geotechnics

KK Phoon, W Zhang - … : Assessment and Management of Risk for …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Machine learning (ML) is widely used in many industries, resulting in recent interests to
explore ML in geotechnical engineering. Past review papers focus mainly on ML algorithms …

What geotechnical engineers want to know about reliability

KK Phoon - ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
The purpose of this paper is to address the “what,”“why,” and “how” questions posed by
engineers who are not familiar with geotechnical reliability and have not kept abreast of …

[HTML][HTML] Unpacking data-centric geotechnics

KK Phoon, J Ching, Z Cao - Underground space, 2022 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper (presented online as a keynote lecture at the 25th Annual
Indonesian Geotechnical Conference on 10 Nov 2021) is to broadly conceptualize the …

A hierarchical Bayesian similarity measure for geotechnical site retrieval

A Sharma, J Ching, KK Phoon - Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
Geotechnical site retrieval refers to the quantitative identification and extraction of sites
similar to a given target site from predocumented generic sites in a database. This is known …

A spectral algorithm for quasi-regional geotechnical site clustering

A Sharma, J Ching, KK Phoon - Computers and Geotechnics, 2023 - Elsevier
Geotechnical site clustering refers to identifying (or learning) groups in a site-labelled
soil/rock database based on inter-site similarity. It is common to cluster sites in a “region” in …

Data-driven development of three-dimensional subsurface models from sparse measurements using Bayesian compressive sampling: A benchmarking study

B Lyu, Y Hu, Y Wang - ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
With the rapid development of computing and digital technologies recently, three-
dimensional (3D) subsurface models for accurate site characterization have received …

Time capsule for geotechnical risk and reliability

M Chwała, KK Phoon, M Uzielli, J Zhang… - … and management of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper is motivated by the Time Capsule Project (TCP) of the International Society for
Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). The historical developments of …

[HTML][HTML] Quasi-site-specific soil property prediction using a cluster-based hierarchical Bayesian model

S Wu, J Ching, KK Phoon - Structural Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
One of the important goals in geotechnical engineering is to learn the correlation
relationships between different soil properties in order to make predictions for a new site of …

Comparison of data-driven site characterization methods through benchmarking: Methodological and application aspects

T Shuku, KK Phoon - ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
Site characterization is one of the most crucial steps for decision making in geotechnical
engineering and to the fullest extent possible should be conducted based on objective data …

Data-driven subsurface modelling using a Markov random field model

T Shuku, KK Phoon - … : Assessment and Management of Risk for …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a method of subsurface modelling based on a Markov random field
(MRF) model called Potts model. Potts model is an undirected graphical model and has …