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Reliability-Based Geotechnical Design Code Development
The evolution of geotechnical design codes, from traditional working stress design (factor of safety) to reliability-based design approaches, has been lagging well behind structural design codes. There is no question that this lag is due to the much larger uncertainty about the ground than exists with most other engineering materials. Nevertheless, significant efforts have been made in recent decades to provide insight into the probabilistic behaviour of the ground and allow for advances to be made in the development of reliability-based geotechnical design codes. This paper compares target reliability levels in existing codes from around the world and then presents the latest advances in consequence and resistance factors required for the design of both shallow and deep foundations which are scheduled to soon appear in Canadian geotechnical design codes.
Reliability-Based Geotechnical Design Code Development
The evolution of geotechnical design codes, from traditional working stress design (factor of safety) to reliability-based design approaches, has been lagging well behind structural design codes. There is no question that this lag is due to the much larger uncertainty about the ground than exists with most other engineering materials. Nevertheless, significant efforts have been made in recent decades to provide insight into the probabilistic behaviour of the ground and allow for advances to be made in the development of reliability-based geotechnical design codes. This paper compares target reliability levels in existing codes from around the world and then presents the latest advances in consequence and resistance factors required for the design of both shallow and deep foundations which are scheduled to soon appear in Canadian geotechnical design codes.
Reliability-Based Geotechnical Design Code Development
Fenton, Gordon A. (author) / Naghibi, Farzaneh (author)
Second International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM) and the Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty, Modeling, and Analysis (ISUMA) ; 2014 ; Liverpool, UK
Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk ; 2468-2477
2014-06-27
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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