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Development of a fuzzy logic based online visualization application for 2D geotechnical cross-section modeling

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2D underground models that reflect the physical, mechanical and structural properties of the geological units below the ground are called geotechnical cross-sections. In order to visualize these cross-sections, geotechnical engineers record the measurements obtained from vertical electrical sounding, seismic refraction or drilling methods. The visualization process is done by hand and it may vary depending on the researcher’s academic knowledge, intuition and drawing ability. Therefore, a visualization may be considered inaccurate by another researcher. However, geotechnical cross-sections should not vary according to a researcher’s perspective. For this reason, there is a need for an application that standardizes the process and has the ability to visualize cross-sections fast and in a practical way. For this purpose, we have developed a web-based visualization application that automatically generates geotechnical cross-sections. A fuzzy logic approach with dynamic rules has been applied to standardize the visualization process. In our experiments, hand-drawn cross-sections were compared to those that were generated by our application and the mean visualization accuracy of the system was calculated as 88.39%.

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Correspondence to Asim Sinan Yuksel.

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Communicated by: H. Babaie

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[dataset] Yuksel, Asim; Uyank, Osman; Er, Kaan (2019), “Geotechnical Cross-Section Data set”, Mendeley Data, v1, https://doi.org/10.17632/pnd5789gyz.1

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GCS-Modeler2D is open-source and free of charge. The source code and instructions to run the application can be accessed from https://doi.org/https://github.com/asimsinan/gcs-modeler2d GCS-Modeler2D Repo. To run GCS-Modeler2D, the compiled files should be published to a Windows based server. GCS-Modeler2D has been tested on Windows 10 operating system. The application is licensed under non-commercial GNU Public License, version 3 (GPL v.3) for academic purposes. All software files can be compiled by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 IDE. At least, a 2.9GHz Intel Core i7 CPU and 8GB of RAM are recommended for further implementation.

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Yuksel, A.S., Uyanik, O. & Er, K. Development of a fuzzy logic based online visualization application for 2D geotechnical cross-section modeling. Earth Sci Inform 13, 1523–1538 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-020-00500-6

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