Estimating the Ultimate Bearing Capacity for Strip Footing Near and within Slopes Using AI (GP, ANN, and EPR) Techniques

Table 4

Connection weights of the developed ANN model.

Predictor		Hidden layer 1				Output layer
		H (1 : 1)	H (1 : 2)	H (1 : 3)	H (1 : 4)	N′c	N′q
Input layer	(Bias)	−3.177	−0.836	−0.387	−3.987
	b/B	0.085	−0.333	0.077	−0.177
	Df/B	0.237	−0.185	0.035	−1.768
	β	−0.511	0.563	−0.187	0.415
	ϕ	2.644	−0.109	−0.750	2.130
Hidden layer 1	(Bias)					0.365	0.592
	H(1 : 1)					2.027	0.730
	H (1 : 2)					−0.608	−1.372
	H (1 : 3)					−1.283	−1.470
	H (1 : 4)					0.053	2.560