Deep Learning Prediction of Settlement and Stress Fields in Geosynthetic Reinforced Pile Supported Soft Ground
摘要
Three-dimensional prediction of vertical settlement, mean effective stress and excess pore-water pressure beneath a geosynthetic-reinforced pile-supported (GRPS) embankment on soft alluvial ground was investigated using a slim 3D U-Net. A reference numerical model of a high-speed railway embankment with eight floating concrete piles, a basal geogrid and three soft-soil layers was discretised onto a 64 × 64 × 48 voxel grid spanning 248,610 mesh nodes across fourteen staged construction and consolidation phases up to 500 days. The 3D U-Net, with about 13 million parameters, jointly predicted the three target fields from 50 to 500 stochastic sparse virtual sensors emulating settlement plates, piezometers and inclinometers. Three-fold spatial-block cross-validation produced mean coefficients of determination of 0.981, 0.902 and 0.983 with normalised root-mean-square error below 4%. Compared with an ordinary kriging baseline at the same sensor count, the network reduced settlement error from 2.66% to 1.93% and raised the stress-field R² from 0.07 to 0.90. A deployment scenario using 55 instruments yielded full-grid R² above 0.97 on all targets. Generalisation across embankment configurations, constitutive uncertainty and realistic sensor degradation were identified as limitations requiring further field validation.