Reliability-based design applied to retaining walls

Geotechnique

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-75

  Low, B K ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Design; Retaining walls; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FOUNDATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY; SAFETY FACTOR; SPREADSHEETS;

FIRST-ORDER RELIABILITY METHOD (FORM); HASOFER-LIND INDEX; LIMIT STATE APPROACH; PARTIAL FACTORS;

RETAINING WALLS;

DESIGN; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; RETAINING WALL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 14044256404     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2005.55.1.63     Document Type: Article

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