Reliability-based design applied to retaining walls
Reliability-based design applied to retaining walls
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DOI:
10.1680/geot.2005.55.1.63
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发表时间:
2005-02
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影响因子:
5.8
通讯作者:
B. Low
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作者:
B. Low
Geotechnical engineers have long used the lumped factor of safety approach in the design of foundations and retaining walls. A more recent alternative is the limit state approach using partial factors, for example as suggested in Eurocode 7. Yet another approach is perhaps more flexible and rational: design based on a target reliability index that reflects the uncertainty of the parameters and their correlation structure. Among the various versions of reliability indices, the Hasofer–Lind index and first-order reliability method (FORM) are more consistent. This paper illustrates practical reliability-based design procedures for retaining walls based on the Hasofer–Lind index and FORM. Correlated normal and non-normal random variables are considered. The efficient spreadsheet-based probabilistic approach, based on the work of Low & Tang, achieves the same result as the Hasofer–Lind method and FORM, but uses an intuitive expanding dispersion ellipsoid perspective that greatly simplifies the computations and...