Reliability Analysis of Laterally Loaded Piles Involving Nonlinear Soil and Pile Behavior
Reliability Analysis of Laterally Loaded Piles Involving Nonlinear Soil and Pile Behavior
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DOI:
10.1061/(asce)1090-0241(2009)135:3(431
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发表时间:
2009-03
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
C. Chan;B. Low
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作者:
C. Chan;B. Low
An alternative approach of analyzing laterally loaded piles in the ubiquitous spreadsheet platform is presented. The numerical procedure couples nonlinear pile flexural rigidity ( Ep Ip ) with nonlinear p-y analysis. The deterministic study is then extended to carry out reliability analysis, which reflects the uncertainties and correlation structure of the underlying parameters. The reliability index is evaluated based on the alternative intuitive perspective of an expanding equivalent ellipsoid in the original space of the random variables. This paper investigates two modes of failure: deflection and bending moment, and considers non-normal random variables. Spatial variability of the soil medium is accounted for by incorporating an autocorrelation model. The spreadsheet-based reliability approach can also be coupled with stand-alone programs via the response surface method. The probabilities of failure inferred from reliability indices agree well with Monte Carlo simulations. Simple reliability-based de...