Reliability analysis of slope stability using stochastic finite element method

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 1402-1407

  Farah, Khaled ^a   Ltifi, Mounir ^a   Hassis, Hedi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Limit equilibrium method; Slope stability; Stochastic finite element method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE STABILITY; SOILS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CRITICAL SLIP SURFACE; LIMIT EQUILIBRIUM METHODS; OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY; PERFORMANCE FUNCTIONS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SIMPLIFIED METHOD; SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF SOIL PROPERTIES; STOCHASTIC FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 80052952452     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.04.233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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