Effect of soil spatial variability on the response of laterally loaded pile in undrained clay

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 537-547

  Haldar, Sumanta ^a   Babu, G L Sivakumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Clay; Lateral loads; Piles; Probabilistic analysis; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CLAY MINERALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PILES; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHEARING MACHINES; SOILS; STATISTICS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CHOLESKY DECOMPOSITION; ELSEVIER (CO); FINITE DIFFERENCE ANALYSIS; LATERAL CAPACITY; LATERAL DISPLACEMENT (LD); LATERAL LOAD CAPACITY; LOADED PILE; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (MCS); NON-GAUSSIAN; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORKS; RANDOM FIELD (RF); RANDOM FIELD THEORY (RFT); SOIL MEDIUM; SOIL SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL CORRELATION (SC); SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STRENGTH PROPERTIES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D); UNDRAINED; UNDRAINED SHEAR STRENGTH (IGC: D6);

SHEAR STRENGTH;

CLAY SOIL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PILE; PROBABILITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 46749114428     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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