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Record W4411722923 · doi:10.1139/cgj-2025-0118

Deep learning-based surrogate model to estimate scour around slab-on-grade foundations subjected to flooding conditions

2025· article· en· W4411722923 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Hiramani Raj Chimauriya, Nripojyoti Biswas, Anand J. Puppala, Amit Gajurel

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Geotechnical Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicDam Engineering and Safety
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNational Science Foundation
KeywordsGeotechnical engineeringSlabFlooding (psychology)GeologyEngineeringForensic engineeringCivil engineeringStructural engineeringPsychology

Abstract

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Residential foundations in coastal areas are susceptible to loss of soil support due to erosion and scour during storm surge events. The current methods to address these issues are largely based on empirical evidence and lack sensitivity to site-specific conditions. Thus, a research study was designed and performed to develop a computationally efficient deep learning-based surrogate model to estimate scour around slab-on-grade foundations on sandy soils over a wide range of flooding conditions. A fully coupled 3D numerical model, calibrated using published laboratory test studies, was used to simulate scour around slab-on-grade foundations. This model was used in conjunction with a space-filling experimental design to generate sample points required to develop a surrogate model. Two deep neural network (DNN)-based surrogate models were developed and tested for predicting scour for varying flow and soil conditions. The DNN-based surrogate model, augmented with modified loss function to penalize un-physical predictions, was shown to achieve the best performance among the studied methods. Monotonicity analysis on the model showed that flood velocity, duration, and grain size properties of soils were found to have a major influence on the predicted maximum scour depth as compared to flood depth. The surrogate model developed can serve as an aid in achieving improved storm surge hazard preparedness, as well as proactive planning for post-hazard recovery efforts in vulnerable coastal communities.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.877
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.269
Teacher spread0.256 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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