FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO RELIABILITY-BASED PILE-SETTLEMENT ANALYSIS

This paper presents some practical considerations in the estimation of the statistics of the Young's modulus of the soil including the incorporation of model uncertainty, and illustrates the validity of the design obtained from first-order analysis by presenting the results of second-order anlysis. The paper also illustrates, through a numerical example, how the design charts presented in an earlier paper, Phoon (1990), can be used to include the uncertainty in the correlation model for the Young's modulus of the soil, in which the correlation parameter is treated as a random variable, in addition to the basic soil property which is modeled as a random field.

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• Authors:
  • Chow, S T
  • Chow, Y K
  • Phoon, K K
• Publication Date: 1992-5

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 726-742
• Serial:
  • Journal of Geotechnical Engineering
  • Volume: 118
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-9410

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Ground settlement; Mathematical models; Modulus of elasticity; Support piles; Uncertainty
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; I42: Soil Mechanics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00621835
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 1992 12:00AM