<p>This paper presents a preliminary study on the system reliability for the geotechnical design of braced excavations in soft clays. In this system reliability geotechnical analysis, both ultimate limit state (ULS) and serviceability limit state (SLS) are ...

<p>At geotechnical sites, deformation measurements are routinely performed during the construction process. In this paper, it is shown how information from such measurements can be utilized to update the reliability estimate of the geotechnical site at future ...

<p>The author has been proposing a reliability based design (RBD) scheme for practicing geotechnical engineers. The essence of the proposed scheme is the separation of the geotechnical design part rom the uncertainty analysis part in geotechnical RBD. In this ...

<p>Safety, reliability and risk analysis and management are the keywords in engineering these days. Yet while technical solutions are in many respects extended by safety margins of 30 to 70% commercial risks are limited to surcharges of the order of 1% forced ...

<p>This paper describes the systematic and holistic approach to geo-risk reduction that has been developed and applied to numerous deep water oil and gas projects and is now being used for shallow water wind farm developments.</p>

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 ...

<p>Last year in the Netherlands a 5-years development programme, called Geo-Impuls, started with the ambitious goal to half the occurrence of geotechnical failure in our civil engineering projects by 2015. This paper describes the sense of urgency to start ...

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, ...

Advantage of Bayesian approach to geotechnical designing. The paper addresses the possibility of the Bayesian approach’s application to geotechnical engineering. First the principal information on the Bayesian analysis has been presented and its applications ...