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Application of Flower Pollination Algorithm to Locate Critical Failure Surface for Slope Stability Analysis

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Machine Learning Algorithms for Industrial Applications

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Analysis and design of the earth slopes has been an essential preface in the area of geotechnical science and engineering for all the times. In a certain moment of time, the geo-hazards or any geological phenomenon may come across to make the slope failures. It may provide extensive loss of life, great economics and environment damage. To reduce the enormous destruction from the slope failures, slope stability analysis can play a necessity role in evaluation of stability factor. In this chapter, a novel nature inspired algorithm based on pollination process of plants is used for locating the critical surface. The quantitative evaluation of stability analysis in terms of factor of safety demonstrated the performance of the approach. The findings indicate the appropriate performance over current methods and declare the optimum solution.

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Singh, J., Kumar, R., Banka, H. (2021). Application of Flower Pollination Algorithm to Locate Critical Failure Surface for Slope Stability Analysis. In: Das, S., Das, S., Dey, N., Hassanien, AE. (eds) Machine Learning Algorithms for Industrial Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 907. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50641-4_17

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