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f ( x) rT r
2
(6)
i 1
i
5 if rk 0.25 set vk+1 = 4vk
if rk 0.25 set vk+1 = vk/2
where r =r(x) is the vector of residuals, i.e., the difference otherwise set vk+1 = vk;
between measured and calculated values.
6 if rk 0 set xk 1 xk else xk 1 xk k
For a least square problem the derivative of f(x) is given
by: Here must be pointed out that, when the function is
sufficiently well behaved for the unmodified Gauss-
f ' ( x ) g( x ) f ( x ) 2Ar (7) Newton algorithm to work successfully, the modifications
m
described above introduce some waste of computational
f ' ' ( x ) G( x ) 2AA T 2 r r
i 1
i
2
i (8)
effort.
4 - RESULTS
where A( x) r1, r2 ,...,rm (Jacobian Matrix) Table 1 shows measurement data for some examples of
soil used to verify the performance of the methods. All
As r(x) is the function to be minimized, its components ri measurements were done by Wenners method. In the
become very small in relation to the other terms, so that present work the method of Schlumberger was not used
G(x) is approximated to: because of lack of data in the literature. Further
investigation with this method, using self obtained
2 T
G(x)= f(x)2AA ******* (9) measurement data, is in course.
Considering the value of G(x) defined in (9), equation (5) Table 2 shows a comparison between the methods
becomes: implemented by using the commercial library
Optimization of MatLab. It can be observed that Gauss-
x k 1 x k AA T 1
Ar (10) Newton Method with cubic interpolation and extrapolation
(GNM) is the one that is the most adequate to soil
AA T 1
Ar stratification in two layers.
2 set xk+1=xk+k
Soil A B C D E
Depth Resist. Measure Resist. Measure Resist. Measure Resist. Measure Resist. Measure
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a (m) med (.m) med (.m) med (.m) med (.m) med (.m)
1 82.1 17.0 - - -
2 100.3 30.2 167.6 25.5 2471.4
4 102.6 42.4 68.7 19.7 2199.1
8 113.9 55.7 26.1 23.3 1072.3
16 149.1 69.5 31.2 43.6 576.4
32 274.8 106.9 - 80.0 415.5
Table 1: Data of the Used Soils
A B C D
Method LMM2 LMM3 GNM2 GNM3 LMM2 LMM3 GNM2 GNM3 LMM2 LMM3 GNM2 GNM3 LMM2 LMM3 GNM2 GNM3
Error 0.0338 0.0338 0.0338 0.0338 0.0683 0.0683 0.0683 0.0683 0.0409 0.0409 0.0409 0.0409 0.0526 0.0526 0.0526 0.0526
Iterations 162 116 73 56 94 64 47 32 276 88 52 36 804 424 76 64
Time (*) 17.50 10.19 7.94 5.88 7.25 6.81 9.63 3.44 23.00 6.50 6.88 2.75 69.38 35.69 6.88 5.50
1(.m) 93.24 93.24 93.24 93.24 13.29 13.29 13.29 13.29 282.32 282.32 282.32 282.32 20.86 20.86 20.86 20.86
2(.m) 1386.5 1386.5 1386.5 1386.5 93.72 93.72 93.72 93.72 26.01 26.01 26.01 26.01 8.6E+5 4.5E+5 8.9E+5 2.5E+5
H(m) 12.59 12.59 12.59 12.59 1.06 1.06 1.06 1.06 1.61 1.61 1.61 1.61 11.52 11.52 11.51 11.51
Table 2: Results for the modelling of the two layers soil with the methods implemented in the toolbox Optimization
A B C D E
Method MN USAM GNM MN USAM GNM MN USAM GNM MN USAM GNM MN USAM GNM
Error 0.0338 0.0338 0.0338 0.0681 0.0682 0.0683 0.0426 0.0426 0.0409 0.0525 0.0525 0.0526 0.0144 0.0144 0.0144
Iterations 10 117 56 4 220 32 5 56 36 31 176 64 5 54 32
Time (*) 4.08 469.39 5.88 2.04 146.94 3.44 2.04 16.33 2.75 161.22 210.20 5.50 2.04 28.57 3.04
1(.m) 93.24 93.20 93.24 13.18 13.41 13.29 278.44 277.61 282.32 20.87 20.87 20.86 2632.0 2632.4 2632.6
2(.m) 1385.5 1339.9 1386.5 93.58 93.96 93.72 26.11 26.07 26.01 5.1E+6 8.4E+6 2.5E+5 418.48 418.51 418.47
H(m) 12.59 12.52 12.59 1.05 1.08 1.06 1.62 1.62 1.61 11.56 11.56 11.51 4.26 4.26 4.26
Table 3: Results of Gauss-Newton Method for the modelling in the two layers soil compared with other numerical optimzation methods.
(*) The results of time are given in terms of a base, in other words, the numeric value given in the table is corresponding
10000
the how many times the computer used for the calculations it would take to calculate 1.05 .
Is verified that the use of the optimization Gauss-Newton That shows that the use of commercial packages of
and Levenberg-Marquardt numerical methods are methods of numeric optimization is viable once the user
perfectly applied to the problem of two layers soil doesn't need to develop methods many times
stratification, once the errors resulting by application of compounds or to implement them in computer programs.
the methods are small and you tolerated, even when
compared with the errors obtained by using other method 7 - REFERENCES
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Main author
Name: Jos Tavares de Oliveira
Address: Departamento de Engenharia Eltrica
Campus Universitrio s/n
59072-970 Natal-RN Brazil
Fax: ; Phone: (55) 84 215-3738
E-mail: tavares@leca.ufrn.br
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