The purpose of the study is to investigate the influence of porosity and void size on equivalent geotechnical engineering properties. The paper uses random field theory to generate models of geomaterials containing spatially random voids with controlled porosity ...

The Random Finite Element Method has been employed for calculating the random characteristics of bearing capacity of a strip foundation. The study has been carried out for two different soils; a greyblue clay from Taranto in Italy, which is well defined from ...

The classical problem of a beam on an elastic foundation (BOEF) has long been of practical interest to geotechnical engineers, because it provides a framework for computing deflections, not only of foundations, but also of vertically oriented laterally loaded ...

Reliability tools have been applied to slope stability analysis more than<br>any other geotechnical application on account of the readily understood oncept of “probability of failure” as an alternative or complement to the traditional “factor of safety”. ...

This paper describes the Random Finite Element Method along with a few of its significant results over a variety of common geotechnical problems. The latter include groundwater modeling, shallow foundation settlement and bearing capacity, deep foundation capacity, ...

The reliability-based design of shallow foundations is generally implemented via a load and resistance factor design methodology embedded in a limit states design framework. For any particular limit state, the design proceeds by ensuring that the factored ...

The objective of this paper is to examine the influence of correlation length and hydraulic conductivity distribution on the probability of failure of a clay liner system. To achieve this objective, a two-dimensional (in plan) clayey liner system is simulated ...

Compares the earth pressure predicted by Rankine's theory with those obtained using a finite element analysis in which the soil is assumed to be spatially random.

Worldwide, there is growing interest in the development of a rational reliability-based geotechnical design code. The reasons for this interest are at least two-fold; first, geotechnical engineers face significantly more uncertainties than those faced in other ...

Evaluating the reliability of slopes against sliding failure is complicated by the fact that most slope soils are spatially variable. This means that instead of nice circular failure surfaces, slope failures tend to be more complex, following the weakest path ...