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This book contains probabilistic analyses and reliability-based designs (RBDs) for the enhancement of Eurocode 7 (EC7) and load and resistance factor design (LRFD) methods. An intuitive perspective and efficient computational procedure for the first-order reliability method (FORM, which includes the Hasofer-Lind reliability index) is explained, together with discussions on the similarities and differences between the design point of EC7/LRFD and RBD-via-FORM.
Probability-based designs with respect to the ultimate and serviceability limit states are demonstrated for soil and rock engineering, including shallow and deep foundations, earth-retaining structures, soil slopes, 2D rock slopes with discontinuities, 3D rock slopes with wedge mechanisms, and underground rock excavations. Renowned cases in soil and rock engineering are analyzed both deterministically and probabilistically, and comparisons are made with other probabilistic methods.
This book is ideal for practitioners, graduate students and researchers and all who want to deepen their understanding of geotechnical RBD accounting for uncertainty and overcome some limitations and potential pitfalls of the evolving LRFD and EC7. Solutions for the book's examples are available online and are helpful to acquire a hands-on appreciation: https://www.routledge.com/9780367631390.
List of contents
1. Introduction Part I: Background chapters on probabilistic methods, LRFD and EC7 2. Hasofer-lind index, FORM, reliability-based design and SORM 3. Civil and environmental applications of reliability analysis and design 4. Eurocode 7, LRFD and links with the first-order reliability method Part II: Reliability-based design applied to soil engineering 5. Spread foundations 6. Pile foundations 7. Earth retaining structures 8. Soil slope stability Part III: Reliability-based design applied to rock engineering 9. Plane sliding in rock slopes 10. Rock slopes with three-dimensional tetrahedral wedges 11. Underground excavations in rock
About the author
Dr Bak Kong Low is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and for 35 years taught at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In 2019, he received the Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award from ASCE.
Summary
This text contains probabilistic analyses and reliability-based designs (RBD) for the enhancement of the Eurocode 7 (EC7) and the Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) methods. Renowned cases in soil and rock engineering are analysed both deterministically and probabilistically.
