Abstract:In order to investigate the change rule and ratio design of compressive strength of polymer solidified soil at the base of calcium carbide slag-activated metakaolin in the seasonal frozen soil area, this study constructed a database using 180 sets of experimental data, including metakaolin content, calcium carbide slag content, curing temperature, curing time, andthe compressive strength of the solidified soil. The regression relationship between the input parameters and the output target (the compressive strength of the solidified soil) was established by various machine learning algorithms (KRR, ANN, and GPR) to predict the compressive strength of polymer solidified soil with calcium carbide-activated metakaolin base, and the performance of the model was evaluated by the coefficient of determination (R2), root-mean-square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE). Finally, the prediction results were interpreted by the parameters sensitivity analysis. The results show that the GPR model exhibits lesser prediction error and better prediction accuracy, and can better predict the compressive strength of polymer-solidified soils with calcium carbide-activated metakaolin base. The sensitivity analysis reveals that the effects of the curing temperature and curing time on the compressive strength are significant. The results of this study can provide a reference basis for the application design of the calcium carbide-activated metakaolin base polymer in the improvement of seasonal frozen soil engineering properties.