Artificial neural networks for soil embankments stability condition identification

This work was supported by FCT – “Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia“, within ISISE, project UID/ECI/04029/2013 as well Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013 and through the post-doctoral Grant fellowship with reference SFRH/BPD/94792/2013. This work was also partly financed by FEDER funds through the Competitivity Factors Operational Programme - COMPETE and by national funds through FCT within the scope of the project POCI-01-0145- FEDER-007633. This work has been also supported by COMPETE: POCI-01-0145- FEDER-007043. A special thanks goes to Network Rail that kindly made available the data (basic earthworks examination data and the Earthworks Hazard Condition scores) used in this work.