Locating critical slip surfaces of soil slopes with heuristic algorithms: A comparative study

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Highlights：

• Eight lastest heuristic optimization algorithms are used to locate the critical slip surface of soil slope.

• The solution quality, robustness and convergence of the eight algorithms are compared in three cases.

• Four algorithms including equilibrium optimizer are first used for locating the critical slip surface of soil slope.

• The equilibrium optimizer outperforms the other algorithms.

摘要

•Eight lastest heuristic optimization algorithms are used to locate the critical slip surface of soil slope.•The solution quality, robustness and convergence of the eight algorithms are compared in three cases.•Four algorithms including equilibrium optimizer are first used for locating the critical slip surface of soil slope.•The equilibrium optimizer outperforms the other algorithms.

论文关键词：Minimum safety factor,Critical slip surface,Heuristic optimization algorithm,Performance comparison

论文评审过程：Received 13 August 2020, Revised 4 September 2021, Accepted 7 November 2021, Available online 27 November 2021, Version of Record 31 December 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.116214