Particle swarm optimization variants for solving geotechnical problems: review and comparative analysis

AR Kashani, R Chiong, S Mirjalili… - Archives of Computational …, 2021 - Springer
Optimization techniques have drawn much attention for solving geotechnical engineering
problems in recent years. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is one of the most widely used …

Sustainable binary blending for low-volume roads—reliability-based design approach and carbon footprint analysis

G Amulya, AAB Moghal, A Almajed - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
The utilization of industrial by-products as stabilizers is gaining attention from the
sustainability perspective. Along these lines, granite sand (GS) and calcium lignosulfonate …

Effect of fibre reinforcement on CBR behaviour of lime-blended expansive soils: reliability approach

AAB Moghal, BCS Chittoori… - Road Materials and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The use of synthetic fibres as reinforcement to stabilise expansive soils is gaining
momentum. As a contribution towards this growing field of research two different types of …

Target reliability-based design optimization studies on cohesive soil amended with chitosan and casein for liner applications

RM Rasheed, AAB Moghal, BM Basha, A Almajed - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The current study investigated the primary and secondary compressibility characteristics of
organic clay with two biopolymers, Chitosan (D ch) and Casein (D ca) at dosages of 0.5 …

Optimum design of unsaturated finite clayey slopes using second-order reliability method

ASS Raghuram, BM Basha - International Journal of Geomechanics, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
This paper discusses the second-order reliability-based design optimization (SORBDO) of
unsaturated finite slopes. An efficient search algorithm is proposed to locate the most …

Probability density evolution method for seismic displacement-based assessment of earth retaining structures

Y Huang, H Hu, M Xiong - Engineering Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
Earthquakes have damaged many earth-retaining structures worldwide, causing much loss
of life and property as well as disrupting traffic. To assess the seismic performance of earth …

Target reliability approach to study the effect of fiber reinforcement on UCS behavior of lime treated semiarid soil

AAB Moghal, BCS Chittoori, BM Basha… - Journal of Materials in …, 2017 - ascelibrary.org
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of stabilizing expansive soil with two different types of
fibers, fiber mesh (FM) and fiber cast (FC), in conjunction with chemical stabilization. The …

Target reliability-based optimisation for internal seismic stability of reinforced soil structures

BM Basha, GLS Babu - Géotechnique, 2012 - icevirtuallibrary.com
In this paper, an approach for target component and system reliability-based design
optimisation (RBDO) to evaluate safety for the internal seismic stability of geosynthetic …

Reliability assessment of internal stability of reinforced soil structures: A pseudo-dynamic approach

BM Basha, GLS Babu - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2010 - Elsevier
A methodology for reliability based optimum design of reinforced soil structures subjected to
horizontal and vertical sinusoidal excitation based on pseudo-dynamic approach is …

System reliability analysis of geosynthetic reinforced soil slope considering local reinforcement failure

M Peng, R Sun, JF Chen, S Rajesh, LM Zhang… - Computers and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract System reliability analyses are necessary for geosynthetic reinforced soil slopes
because of the uncertainties associated with design parameters and complicated interaction …