Underground excavation can lead to stress redistribution and result in an excavation damaged zone(EDZ),which is an important factor affecting the excavation stability and support design.Accurately estimating the thickness of EDZ is essential to ensure the safety of the underground excavation.In this study,four novel hybrid ensemble learning models were developed by optimizing the extreme gradient boosting(XGBoost)and random forest(RF)algorithms through simulated annealing(SA)and Bayesian optimization(BO)approaches,namely SA-XGBoost,SA-RF,BO XGBoost and BO-RF models.A total of 210 cases were collected from Xiangxi Gold Mine in Hunan Province and Fankou Lead-zinc Mine in Guangdong Province,China,including seven input indicators:embedding depth,drift span,uniaxial compressive strength of rock,rock mass rating,unit weight of rock,lateral pressure coefficient of roadway and unit consumption of blasting explosive.The performance of the proposed models was evaluated by the coefficient of determination,root mean squared error,mean absolute error and variance accounted for.The results indicated that the SA-XGBoost model performed best.The Shapley additive explanations method revealed that the embedding depth was the most important indicator.Moreover,the convergence curves suggested that the SA-XGBoost model can reduce the generalization error and avoid overfitting.
LIU Lei-leiHONG Zhi-xianZHAO Guo-yanLIANG Wei-zhang
