Risk and reliability in geotechnical engineering Edited by Kok-Kwang Phoon, Jianye Ching - Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2017. - xxx, 594 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I: Properties
Constructing multivariate distributions for soil parameters
Modeling and simulation of the bivariate distribution of shear strength parameters using copulas
PART II: Methods
Evaluating reliability in geotechnical engineering
Maximum likelihood principle and its application in soil liquefaction assessment
Bayesian analysis for learning and updating geotechnical parameters and models with measurements
Polynomial chaos expansions and stochastic finite-element methods
Practical reliability analysis and design by Monte Carlo Simulation in a spreadsheet
PART III: Design
LRFD calibration of simple limit state functions in geotechnical soil-structure design
Reliability-based design: Practical procedures, geotechnical examples, and insights
Managing risk and achieving reliable geotechnical designs using Eurocode 7
PART IV: Risk and decision
Practical risk assessment for embankments, dams, and slopes
Evolution of geotechnical risk analysis in North American practice
Assessing the value of information to design site investigation and construction quality assurance programs
Verification of geotechnical reliability using load tests and integrity tests
PART V: Spatial variability
Application of the subset simulation approach to spatially varying soils.

Establishes Geotechnical Reliability as Fundamentally Distinct from Structural Reliability. Reliability-based design is relatively well established in structural design. Its use is less mature in geotechnical design, but there is a steady progression towards reliability-based design as seen in the inclusion of a new Annex Don "Reliability of Geotechnical Structures" in the third edition of ISO 2394. Reliability-based design can be viewed as a simplified form of risk-based design where different consequences of failure are implicitly covered by the adoption of different target reliability indices. Explicit risk management methodologies are required for large geotechnical systems where soil and loading conditions are too varied to be conveniently slotted into a few reliability classes (typically three) and an associated simple discrete tier of target reliability indices.

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Geotechnical engineering
Reliability
Rock mechanics
Soil mechanics

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