Research Article

Predicting Geotechnical Investigation Using the Knowledge Based System

Table 4

Main characteristics of the reference site.

InputArea of projectLayout geometryProject conditionsGeologySimilarity

Data = 80 m
= 60 m
= 4800 

five-story hotelFour geological layers,
relatively known
The preliminary results show similarity
(similarity around 50%)

CriteriaEquations (25) and (26)Table 2 and engineering judgment

Assign value
LG = 2PC = 4GEO = 5SIM = 5