Determination of the Critical Slip Surface Using Artificial Fish Swarms Algorithm
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 134, Issue 2
Abstract
The writers have come across a difficult stability analysis problem where there are several “strong” local minima. Several well known heuristic global minimum methods fail to locate the global minimum for this case, and the writers finally adopt the artificial fish swarms algorithm to overcome this difficult problem. This optimization algorithm is demonstrated to be effective and efficient for normal problems. To illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, three difficult examples are considered. The sensitivity of the proposed algorithm with respect to the parameters used for the global optimization algorithm will also be investigated in this paper.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 134 • Issue 2 • February 2008
Pages: 244 - 251
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Received: Jun 13, 2006
Accepted: May 22, 2007
Published online: Feb 1, 2008
Published in print: Feb 2008
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