Risk and Reliability in Geotechnical Engineering
Kok-Kwang Phoon, National University of Singapore;
Jianye Ching, National Taiwan University
CRC Press, Inc., 2014
ISBN: 9781482227215;
Language: English
Risk and Reliability in Geotechnical Engineering makes reliability and risk methodologies more accessible to practitioners and researchers. It presents them with soil statistics which are necessary inputs, explains how calculations can be carried out using simple tools, and provides illustrative or actual examples showcasing the benefits and limitations of these methodologies.
With contributions from a broad international group of authors, this text:
- Presents probabilistic models suited for soil parameters
- Provides easy-to-use methods for reliability analysis based on Excel®
- Connects reliability analysis to design codes (including LRFD and Eurocode 7)
- Maximizes value of information using Bayesian updating
- Contains efficient reliability analysis methods
Risk and Reliability in Geotechnical Engineering presents all the need-to-know information for a nonspecialist to calculate and interpret the reliability index and the risk of geotechnical structures in a realistic and robust way. It suits engineers, researchers, and students who are interested in the practical outcomes of reliability and risk analyses without going into the intricacies of the underlying mathematical theories.
In addition, a set of MATLAB code files are included in an appendix.
