Print Email Facebook Twitter Machine Learning Revealing Insights into Soil Stratification Title Machine Learning Revealing Insights into Soil Stratification: An Application for Dikes and Dams Author Leunge, Laurens (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences) Contributor Kok, Matthijs (graduation committee) Jorissen, Richard (graduation committee) Vardon, Phil (graduation committee) Coelho, Bruno Zauda (mentor) Klerk, Wouter Jan (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Civil Engineering Date 2019-01-30 Abstract In the Netherlands, robust dike and dam design is a major concern in the context of flood defence. Due to heterogeneity of the subsoil on which these structures are founded, the validity range of in situ tests decreases drastically. Consequently, large uncertainties regarding spatial variation of soil stratification and soil layer parameters are incorporated in the cross-sectional reliability requirements, resulting in conservative designs. This thesis presents a Machine Learning application, which, by learning locally measured information and analysing high spatial resolution surface settlement data, can provide insights into spatial variation of soil stratification. Through the analysis of these insights, the uncertainties regarding spatial variability in cross-sectional reliability requirements can be reduced, which leads to less conservatism in dike and dam construction. Subject Machine LearningSupport Vector MachinesSoil StratificationDikeDam To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1b91c352-0544-4744-9023-4efbcfd8bdd7 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2019 Laurens Leunge Files PDF Main_Report_28_01_2019.pdf 18.69 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:1b91c352-0544-4744-9023-4efbcfd8bdd7/datastream/OBJ/view