Uncertainty and reliability analysis applied to slope stability

Structural Safety

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 161-187

  Husein Malkawi, Abdallah I ^a   Hassan, Waleed F ^a   Abdulla, Fayez A ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Factor of safety; First order second moment; Model uncertainty; Monte Carlo simulation; Reliability index; Slope stability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; RELIABILITY; SAFETY FACTOR; SLOPE STABILITY;

BISHOP METHOD; FIRST ORDER SECOND MOMENT METHOD; JANBU METHOD; MODEL UNCERTAINTY; ORDINARY METHOD OF SLICES; RELIABILITY INDEX; SPENCER METHOD;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE STABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034120012     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4730(00)00006-0     Document Type: Article

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