MLLBC: A Machine Learning Toolbox for Modeling the Loss Rate of the Lining Bearing Capacity

Testing the health of tunnels, as a branch of highway operation, has an extremely important application in public property and even life safety. Among them, there are many factors that cause the tunnel to deform or collapse. The conventional methods use the finite element method (FEM) which are to simulate the bearing capacity loss rate of the lining by using the mechanical method. However, it takes a long time to calculate the stress-strain-situation of the lining model under each condition. This paper explores the machine learning to calculate the loss rate of the lining bearing capacity under more conditions based on FEM simulation data. Here, we establish a machine learning toolbox for modeling the loss rate of the lining bearing capacity named “MLLBC”, which contains three main components: 1) data loading; 2) machine learning model deployment; 3) performance evaluation. To ensure the fairness of model evaluation, ten machine learning models use a unified code library. We also conduct experiments on our new dataset which is the loss rate of the lining bearing capacity with different data amounts, as well as experiments on the goodness of model fitting under different ranges of various variables.