“…This was achieved with the use of reliable mechanical properties from PMT, and the groups were assigned probabilistic using a clustering algorithm. Clustering analyses have been applied by many researchers to classify soils, including classifications based on PMT (Bhargavi et al, 2010;Bhattacharya & Solomatine, 2006;Bilski, 2015;Bouayad et al, 2021;Coelho et al, 2021;Goktepe et al, 2005;Han et al, 2011;Hegazy & Mayne, 2002;Hot & Popović-Bugarin, 2016;Kloosterman & Lavkulich, 1973;Liao & Mayne, 2007;Maione et al, 2022;Monnet, 2008;Monnet & Broucke, 2012;Rabarijoely et al, 2007;Zhao & Wang, 2020).…”