Reliability assessment of pile groups in sands

Journal of Structural Engineering

Volumn 128, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1346-1353

  Eloseily, Khaled H ^a   Ayyub, Bilal M ^b   Patev, Robert ^c  

^a BECHTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure modes; Limit analysis; Limit states; Pile foundation; Pile groups; Reliability

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAND; STIFFNESS;

FAILURE MODES; LIMIT ANALYSIS; PILE GROUPS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 10844235599     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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