Determination of carried suspended sediment concentration and amount by artificial neural networks

Abstract

Computation on Civil Engineering has concentrated primarily on artificial intelligence applications in the past few years. These applications generally involve expert systems. This article deals Neural Networks and applications were presented. It quickly gives results In test phase in short time. It is a preferable method among the other approaching methods. In Turkey, sedimentation which is the natural result of erosion occurring by different factors is known having an adverse effect on development of soil and water resources. In this study, the suspended sediment amount carried by stream is determined by the feed forward neural network method. The training sets for the problem were generated through sediment measurements which have been performed by EIE.