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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.
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.
