Expanded reliability-based design of piles in spatially variable soil using efficient Monte Carlo simulations

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 820-834

  Wang, Yu ^a   Cao, Zijun ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Design practice; EXCEL spreadsheet; H1; IGC: E4; Inherent spatial variability; Monte Carlo simulation; Reliability based design; Subset Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MINE SHAFTS; RELIABILITY; SHAFT SINKING; SOILS; SPREADSHEETS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; USER INTERFACES;

DESIGN PRACTICE; EXCEL SPREADSHEETS; IGC: E4; RELIABILITY BASED DESIGN; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUBSET SIMULATION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84900667812     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sandf.2013.10.002     Document Type: Article

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