Machine Learning in Geohazard Risk Prediction and Assessment
From Microscale Analysis to Regional Mapping
- 1st Edition - July 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Biswajeet Pradhan, Daichao Sheng, Xuzhen He
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 6 6 3 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 6 6 4 - 8
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Request a sales quoteMachine Learning in Geohazard Risk Prediction and Assessment: From Microscale Analysis to Regional Mapping presents an overview of the most recent developments in machine learning techniques that have reshaped our understanding of geo-materials and management protocols of geo-risk. The book covers a broad category of research on machine-learning techniques that can be applied, from microscopic modeling to constitutive modeling, to physics-based numerical modeling, to regional susceptibility mapping. This is a good reference for researchers, academicians, graduate and undergraduate students, professionals, and practitioners in the field of geotechnical engineering and applied geology.
- Introduces machine-learning techniques in the risk management of geo-hazards, particularly recent developments
- Covers a broader category of research and machine-learning techniques that can be applied, from microscopic modeling to constitutive modeling, to physics-based numerical modeling, to regional susceptibility mapping
- Contains contributions from top researchers around the world, including authors from the UK, USA, Australia, Austria, China, and India
Researchers, academicians, graduate and undergraduate students, professionals, and practitioners in the field of geotechnical engineering and applied geologypopular science authors, primary/high school teachers, government officers for infrastructure, policymakers for regions with geo-risks
Part 1: Machine learning methods and connections between different parts.
1. Machine learning methods
2. Connections between studies across different scales
3. Summary and outlook
Part 2: Machine learning in microscopic modelling of geo-materials.
4. Machine-learning-enabled discrete element method
5. Machine learning in micromechanics based virtual laboratory testing
6. Integrating X-ray CT and machine learning for better understanding of granular materials
7. Summary and outlook
Part 3: Machine learning in constitutive modelling of geo-materials.
8. Thermodynamics-driven deep neural network as constitutive equations
9. Deep active learning for constitutive modelling of granular materials
10. Summary and outlook
Part 4: Machine learning in design of geo-structures.
11. Deep learning for surrogate modelling for geotechnical risk analysis
12. Deep learning for geotechnical optimization of designs
13. Deep learning for time series forecasting in geotechnical engineering
14. Summary and outlook
Part 5: Machine learning in geo-risk susceptibility mapping for regions of various sizes.
15. Deep learning and ensemble modeling of debris flows, mud flows and rockfalls.
16. Integrating machine learning and physical-based models in landslide susceptibility and hazard mapping.
17. Explainable AI (XAI) in landslide susceptibility, hazard, vulnerability and risk assessment.
18. New approaches for data collection for susceptibility mapping
19. Summary and outlook
1. Machine learning methods
2. Connections between studies across different scales
3. Summary and outlook
Part 2: Machine learning in microscopic modelling of geo-materials.
4. Machine-learning-enabled discrete element method
5. Machine learning in micromechanics based virtual laboratory testing
6. Integrating X-ray CT and machine learning for better understanding of granular materials
7. Summary and outlook
Part 3: Machine learning in constitutive modelling of geo-materials.
8. Thermodynamics-driven deep neural network as constitutive equations
9. Deep active learning for constitutive modelling of granular materials
10. Summary and outlook
Part 4: Machine learning in design of geo-structures.
11. Deep learning for surrogate modelling for geotechnical risk analysis
12. Deep learning for geotechnical optimization of designs
13. Deep learning for time series forecasting in geotechnical engineering
14. Summary and outlook
Part 5: Machine learning in geo-risk susceptibility mapping for regions of various sizes.
15. Deep learning and ensemble modeling of debris flows, mud flows and rockfalls.
16. Integrating machine learning and physical-based models in landslide susceptibility and hazard mapping.
17. Explainable AI (XAI) in landslide susceptibility, hazard, vulnerability and risk assessment.
18. New approaches for data collection for susceptibility mapping
19. Summary and outlook
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 434
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443236631
- eBook ISBN: 9780443236648
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Biswajeet Pradhan
Biswajeet Pradhan is a distinguished professor at UTS School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is an international expert in data-driven modelling and a pioneer in combining spatial modelling with statistical and machine learning models for natural hazard predictions including landslides. He has a track record of outstanding research outputs, with over 600 journal articles. He is a highly interdisciplinary researcher with publications across 12 areas, listed as having ‘Excellent’ international collaboration status. He has been a Highly Cited Researcher for five consecutive years (2016-2020) and ranks fifth in the field of Geological & Geoenvironmental Engineering.
Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished Professor and Director, Centre for Advanced Modelling and Geospatial Information Systems (CAMGIS), University of Technology Sydney, School of Information, Systems and Modelling; Faculty of Engineering and IT, New South Wales, AustraliaDS
Daichao Sheng
Daichao Sheng is a distinguished professor and the head of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has developed an internationally recognized profile in computational geomechanics including soft computing, unsaturated soils, geo-risk analysis and transport geotechnics. He has published 300+ peer-reviewed papers and two books, including 200+ papers in top geotechnical and computational mechanics journals. These publications now attract 1400+ citations per annum, with an H-Index of 48 in Scopus. His track record places him easily within the top handful of geomechanics professionals of his age worldwide. He has collaborated widely with Australian and international researchers in his field
Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished Professor and Head of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ultimo, New South Wales, AustraliaXH
Xuzhen He
Xuzhen He is a senior lecturer at UTS School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is an early career researcher and completed his undergraduate and PhD training at the world’s top universities (Tsinghua for his BSc and Cambridge for his PhD) and was awarded the John Winbolt Prize and the Raymond and Helen Kwok Scholarship from Cambridge University. He was awarded the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award in 2021. His research interest lies mainly in computational geomechanics, and he has published 30+ high-quality journal papers in these areas.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, UTS School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia