“…Previous studies (Papaliangas et al, 1993;Sklavounos and Sakellariou, 1995;Indraratna et al, 1999;Wang et al, 2000;Jin et al, 2006;Vardakos. et al, 2007;Tiryaki, 2008;Zorlu et al, 2008;Ceryan et al, 2012;Samani and Bafghi, 2012;Yagiz et al, 2012;Rajesh Kumar et al, 2013;Zheng et al, 2013;Gu et al, 2015;Liu et al, 2015;Song et al, 2015;Wang et al, 2015;Raissi et al, 2018;Matos et al, 2019;Almajid and Abu-Alsaud, 2021;Dantas Neto et al, 2021;Deng and Pan, 2021;Haghighat et al, 2021;Hasanipanah et al, 2021;Fathipour-Azar, 2022;Garg et al, 2022;Li and Chen, 2022;Mahmoodzadeh et al, 2022) have shown that machine learning methods can provide new ideas for rock mechanics problems, and this issue is no exception (Ghaboussi and Sidarta, 1998;Jaksa. and Maier., 2009).…”