TY - JOUR
T1 - Data-driven framework for predicting ground temperature during ground freezing of a silty deposit
AU - Pham, Khanh
AU - Park, Sangyeong
AU - Choi, Hangseok
AU - Won, Jongmuk
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grants (2020R1A6A1A03045059 and 2019R1A2C2086647) funded by the Korea government.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Techno-Press, Ltd.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Predicting the frozen zone near the freezing pipe in artificial ground freezing (AGF) is critical in estimating the efficiency of the AGF technique. However, the complexity and uncertainty of many factors affecting the ground temperature cause difficulty in developing a reliable physical model for predicting the ground temperature. This study proposed a data-driven framework to accurately predict the ground temperature during the operation of AGF. Random forest (RF) and extreme gradient boosting (XGB) techniques were employed to develop the prediction model using the dataset of a field experiment in the silty deposit. The developed ensemble models showed relatively good performance (R2 > 0.96), yet the XGB model showed higher accuracy than the RF model. In addition, the evaluated mutual information and importance score revealed that the environmental attributes (ambient temperature, surface temperature, humidity, and wind speed) can be critical in predicting ground temperature during the AFG operation. The prediction models presented in this study can be utilized in evaluating freezing efficiency at the range of geotechnical and environmental attributes.
AB - Predicting the frozen zone near the freezing pipe in artificial ground freezing (AGF) is critical in estimating the efficiency of the AGF technique. However, the complexity and uncertainty of many factors affecting the ground temperature cause difficulty in developing a reliable physical model for predicting the ground temperature. This study proposed a data-driven framework to accurately predict the ground temperature during the operation of AGF. Random forest (RF) and extreme gradient boosting (XGB) techniques were employed to develop the prediction model using the dataset of a field experiment in the silty deposit. The developed ensemble models showed relatively good performance (R2 > 0.96), yet the XGB model showed higher accuracy than the RF model. In addition, the evaluated mutual information and importance score revealed that the environmental attributes (ambient temperature, surface temperature, humidity, and wind speed) can be critical in predicting ground temperature during the AFG operation. The prediction models presented in this study can be utilized in evaluating freezing efficiency at the range of geotechnical and environmental attributes.
KW - Artificial ground freezing
KW - Data-driven framework
KW - Extreme gradient boosting
KW - Mutual information
KW - Random forest
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U2 - 10.12989/gae.2021.26.3.235
DO - 10.12989/gae.2021.26.3.235
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85114086958
SN - 2005-307X
VL - 26
SP - 235
EP - 251
JO - Geomechanics and Engineering
JF - Geomechanics and Engineering
IS - 3
ER -