Machine Learning for Data-Centric Geotechnics by Phoon, Kok-Kwang; Tang, Chong; Cao, Zi-Jun;

Short description:

This collection of chapters from specialists presents principles and practices of machine learning, along with a number of example areas of site characterization, design and construction in geotechnics.This book is essential for sophisticated practitioners as well as graduate student.

Long description:

Machine learning and other digital technologies fed with large datasets offer a major set of tools for practical geotechnical design. Large language models and other generative AIs can perform cognitive tasks currently undertaken by humans -- and might even predict the next event based on some time series. This depends on a balance of data centricity, fit-for (and transform) practice, and geotechnical context, and can be achieved by the integration of information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts, theories, along with experience from both geotechnical engineering and machine learning in computer science. And yet good engineering and research outcomes are still dependent on how practice (which includes the workforce) is improved or even transformed in the longer term to better serve end-users. This collection of focused chapters from a group of specialists presents principles and broad up to date practice of machine learning, along with a number of example areas of site characterization, design and construction in geotechnics.

This book is essential for sophisticated practitioners as well as graduate students.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Machine Learning in Offshore Geotechnical Engineering
Chapter 2 Generative AI in Geotechnical Engineering: Current
Chapter 3 Addressing the site recognition challenge using tailored clustering 
Chapter 4 Machine Learning for the Classification of Natural Sands
Chapter 5 Deep Insight into the Minimum Information Dependence Model for Uncovering Nonlinear Structures in Geotechnical Data
Chapter 6 Image-based Paradigm for Geological Modelling
Chapter 7 Data-Driven Geological Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification Using Bayesian Machine Learning and Stochastic Simulation
Chapter 8 Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Geotechnical Data Analysis
Chapter 9 Development of the optimal Bayesian Gaussian process regression models for prediction of geotechnical properties with features selection
Chapter 10 Auto-ML for Model Calibration and Selection in Geotechnical Engineering: General Framework and Application to Constitutive Parameter Estimation for Materials Following the NorSand Model
Chapter 11 Optimizing Machine Learning for Regression Tasks: Estimating the Axial Capacity of Drilled Shaf
Chapter 12 Physics-informed Sparse Machine Learning of Geotechnical Monitoring Data
Chapter 13 Data-driven risk assessment and prediction of deep excavation
Chapter 14 Leveraging machine learning for optimizing TBM tunnelling operations: a big data approach using in-situ and field data 
Chapter 15 Revolution or Risk? The Dual Edges of Machine Learning and Stochastic Modeling in Tunnel Construction
Chapter 16 Towards real-time back analysis in tunnel engineering