Reliability-based underseepage analysis in levees using a response surface-Monte Carlo simulation method

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 821-830

  Rice, John D ^a   Polanco, Lourdes ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Heave; Levee; Piping; Reliability; Seepage

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; FIRST ORDER SECOND MOMENT; HEAVE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PIPING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD; SUB-SURFACE GEOMETRIES;

FAILURE (MECHANICAL); GEOMETRY; LEVEES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY THEORY; SAFETY FACTOR; SEEPAGE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FAILURE MECHANISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LEVEE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PIPING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEEPAGE;

EID: 84879382512     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000650     Document Type: Article

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