Reliability analysis with scarce information: Comparing alternative approaches in a geotechnical engineering context

Structural Safety

Volumn 41, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-10

  Beer, Michael ^a   Zhang, Yi ^b   Quek, Ser Tong ^b   Phoon, Kok Kwang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Geotechnical engineering; Imprecise probabilities; Interval analysis; Reliability analysis; Scarce information

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; ENGINEERING DECISIONS; FAILURE MECHANISM; IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES; INTERVAL ANALYSIS; NON-PROBABILISTIC; NON-PROBABILISTIC INFORMATION; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; SCARCE INFORMATION;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RETAINING WALLS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84869113040     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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