Table 3: ANN models to predict the settlement (S).

Model No. Input Nodes Hidden Layer-1 Output Layer Testing Data
Processing Elements Transfer Function Processing Elements Transfer Function MSE MAE R2
1 3 3 Sig. 1 Sig. 0.16 0.2 0.93
2 3 3 tanh 1 tanh 0.21 0.27 0.87
3 3 4 tanh 1 tanh 0.26 0.33 0.82
4 3 5 Sig. 1 Sig. 0.29 0.36 0.79
5 3 6 tanh 1 tanh 0.33 0.41 0.79