Reliability assessment of liquefaction potential using the jointly distributed random variables method

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue , 2012, Pages 81-87

  Johari, A ^a   Javadi, A A ^b   Makiabadi, M H ^a   Khodaparast, A R ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; CONSTANT PARAMETERS; DISTRIBUTED RANDOM VARIABLES; EARTHQUAKE ACCELERATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; EFFECTIVE TOOL; FACTOR OF SAFETY; LIQUEFACTION POTENTIALS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; RELATIVE DENSITY; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; STOCHASTIC PARAMETERS; TRIAXIAL TEST; TRUNCATED NORMAL;

EARTHQUAKES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM VARIABLES; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SAFETY FACTOR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SOIL LIQUEFACTION;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; LIQUEFACTION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84858620405     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2012.01.017     Document Type: Article

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