Research Article

Prediction of Ultimate Bearing Capacity of Cohesionless Soils Using Soft Computing Techniques

Table 3

Predicted bearing capacity of different models for testing dataset.

Sl no.Observed bearing capacity (kPa)Meyerhof [2] (kPa)Hansen [3] (kPa)Vesic [4] (kPa)ANN (kPa)FIS (kPa)SVM (kPa)GP
(kPa)
RBF Kernel
(C = 250; σ = 3)
Polykernel
(C = 100; d = 2)

117601174.8921230.6491194.5711753.0481888.482137.0962005.191794.292
2214163.54164.0827117.9378221.1134195.1252257.952165.809211.9048
3681353.1485322.5613372.5071579.7285651.3084999.874676.838639.0338
4137114.1407124.072194.67636161.6463100.6128125.435143.271152.3006
5322372.0038365.65329.434226.6236150.2774304.729240.232311.4622
620331757.7211641.4361510.4982047.192164.1291863.6542012.7472077.698
7464560.7228530.9029542.3884475.0664657.024540.622816.999572.9832
8461270295.4085214.7597348.0043274.1106409.256368.095484.8436
91140865.35841.3887780.51281064.8741097.0221023.9011059.1881118.019
10630516.9667565.6161411.1984512.1459541.044667.666632.805498.9244
111540697.3765608.3824664.35411626.0861683.991691.9241271.2591558.777
12180.5139.4636134.7036115.906269.2338241.4368188.525175.087217.0617
1391.5101.677788.8898280.8176499.8448107.091693.13177.51188.75574
14244.6290.428279.7286249.5037233.3973230.3643242.907250.901250.7569
15143.3138.7347138.3666119.3544108.4208151.7547139.657138.799127.4984
16131.5144.9232135.2796162.6324130.6124156.5113129.475109.495153.612
17253.6283.7822270.4981333.1746226.1098275.0038251.614255.153266.6882
18135.2125.613121.5267136.3814128.8321178.5992135.021131.044133.1664
19264.5329.4678314.9475383.6036198.7189347.2885272.425386.591245.1108