1st Edition

Machine Learning for Data-Centric Geotechnics

Edited By Kok-Kwang Phoon, Chong Tang, Zi-Jun Cao Copyright 2026
456 Pages 226 Color & 21 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Machine learning and other digital technologies fed with large datasets offer a major set of tools for practical geotechnical design. Large language models and other generative AIs can perform cognitive tasks currently undertaken by humans -- and might even predict the next event based on some time series. This depends on a balance of data centricity, fit-for (and transform) practice, and... Read more

Chapter 1 Machine Learning in Offshore Geotechnical Engineering
Chapter 2 Generative AI in Geotechnical Engineering: Current
Chapter 3 Addressing the site recognition challenge using tailored clustering 
Chapter 4 Machine Learning for the Classification of Natural Sands
Chapter 5 Deep Insight into the Minimum Information Dependence Model for Uncovering Nonlinear Structures in Geotechnical Data
Chapter 6 Image-based Paradigm for Geological Modelling
Chapter 7 Data-Driven Geological Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification Using Bayesian Machine Learning and Stochastic Simulation
Chapter 8 Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Geotechnical Data Analysis
Chapter 9 Development of the optimal Bayesian Gaussian process regression models for prediction of geotechnical properties with features selection
Chapter 10 Auto-ML for Model Calibration and Selection in Geotechnical Engineering: General Framework and Application to Constitutive Parameter Estimation for Materials Following the NorSand Model
Chapter 11 Optimizing Machine Learning for Regression Tasks: Estimating the Axial Capacity of Drilled Shaf
Chapter 12 Physics-informed Sparse Machine Learning of Geotechnical Monitoring Data
Chapter 13 Data-driven risk assessment and prediction of deep excavation
Chapter 14 Leveraging machine learning for optimizing TBM tunnelling operations: a big data approach using in-situ and field data 
Chapter 15 Revolution or Risk? The Dual Edges of Machine Learning and Stochastic Modeling in Tunnel Construction
Chapter 16 Towards real-time back analysis in tunnel engineering

Biography

Kok-Kwang Phoon is President designate of Singapore University of Technology and Design. He has edited or written several books with CRC Press, including Model Uncertainties in Foundation Design. He was awarded the ASCE Norman Medal twice in 2005 and 2020, and is the Founding Editor of Georisk.

Chong Tang is a Professor of Dalian University of Technology in China. He was awarded ASCE's Norman Medal in 2020.

Zi-Jun Cao is Professor at Southwest Jiaotong University, China. He received the GEOSNet Young Researcher Award in 2022 and ISSMGE Bright Spark Lecture Award in 2019.