It is well known that the human brain has the advantage of handling disperse
and parallel distributed data eficiently. On the basis of this fact, arttjicial
neural networks theory was developed and has been applied to various fields of
science successfully. In this study, error back propagation neural networks were
utilized to predict the ultlmate bearing capacity of piles. For the verification of
applicability of neural networks, results of model pile load tests performed by
the authors were simulated. In addition, the results of in situ pile load tests
obtained from a literature survey were also used. The results showed that the
maximum error of prediction did not exceed 2.5%, except for some bias data.
These limited results indicated the feasibility of utilizing neural networks for
pile capacity prediction problems