Geotechnical Safety and Risk IV

Limin Zhang, Yu Wang, Gang Wang, Li Dianqing

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781138001633
• eBook ISBN: 9781317753254
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Geotechnical Safety and Risk IV contains the contributions presented at the 4th International Symposium on Geotechnical Safety and Risk (4th ISGSR, Hong Kong, 4-6 December 2013), which was organised under the auspices of the Geotechnical Safety Network (GEOSNet), TC304 on Engineering Practice of Risk Assessment and Management and TC205 on Safety an

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Organisation
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Wilson Tang lecture
• An homage to Wilson Tang: Reliability and risk in geotechnical practice—how Wilson led the way
• 2 Keynote lectures
• Advances in geotechnical risk and reliability for offshore applications
• Homogenization of geomaterials using the random finite element method
• Selecting optimal probability models for geotechnical reliability analysis
• Robust design of geotechnical systems-a new design perspective
• Integrated geo risk management: Crossing boundaries
• Is landslide risk quantifiable and manageable?
• 3 Geotechnical uncertainty and variability
• Quantifying epistemic uncertainty and aleatory variability of Newmark displacements under scenario earthquakes
• Reliability analysis of 640 m long soil retaining wall for an embedded highway construction
• CPT-based Bayesian identification of underground soil stratigraphy
• Characterization of three-dimensional random crack network in soil using CT test
• Linear regression and statistical analysis of shear strength parameters
• Uncertainty quantification by polynomial chaos expansion for geotechnical reliability-based analysis
• 4 Influence of spatial variability on geotechnical design decisions
• Mobilized shear strength of soils with constrained slip curves
• Reliability of heterogeneous slopes with cross-correlated shear strength parameters
• Finite element analysis of compression behavior of ground improvement with spatial variability
• Stochastic finite element analysis for ground improvement by vertical drains of spatially variable soils
• Regularity of the variance reduction function in Tianjin Port
• Seepage through anisotropic non-stationary random fields
• 5 Geohazards
• Integrating seismic hazard analyses with geotechnical site characterization for liquefaction potential assessment in Kaohsiung area
• Landslide considerations for low cost remedial works for the Karakorum Highway, Pakistan
• Landslide mitigation considerations for low cost highway remedial works, East Timor
• The landslide of Kirf: A chain of governance failures
• A risk-based active fault classification
• Introducing non-stationary earthquake process concept: Including an analytical model and a case study in Central Taiwan
• Modelling techniques of submarine landslide in centrifuge
• 6 Reliability and risk analysis
• The schedule optimization for subway station construction based on critical chain
• A cell-based model for predicting runout distances of detached materials in rainfall-induced slope failures
• Dike failure mechanisms from the perspective of risk assessment
• Reliability assessment of earth pressure on rigid non-yielding retaining walls
• Seismic damage occurrence probability in an existing estuary dam
• Probabilistic analysis of dry soil mix columns
• Soft soil subgrade’s reliability and risk assessment under incomplete probability conditions
• Localised metamodelling techniques for geotechnical reliability-based analysis
• Flood simulation considering probability of heavy rains and uncertainty of soil properties of earth-fill dams
• Reliability analysis of 20-km river dike against liquefaction failure
• Effect of slenderness ratio on the reliability-based serviceability limit state design of augered cast-in-place piles
• Uplifit model for the Red River dikes of Vietnam
• Effect of rainfall on the reliability of an infinite slope
• Influence of particle transport on slope stability under rainfall infiltration
• 7 Reliability-and risk-based monitoring and site investigation
• Effect of inadequate site investigation on the cost and time of a construction project
• Probabilistic characterization of Young’s modulus using Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation
• Site investigation approaches for the proposed Ukhuu Khudag to Gashuun Sukhait Railway, South Gobi desert, Mongolia
• Bayesian model updating of a tunnel in soft soil with settlement measurements
• A role of monitoring to reduce the uncertainty in the performance of pile foundations
• Using head monitoring for reliability updating of levees
• 8 Performance evolution and risk assessment of high slopes in hydropower engineering in China
• Numerical simulation of blasting induced damage of high rock slope
• Slope reliability analysis using a non-intrusive stochastic finite element method
• A novel bond contact model for rock and its calibration
• Study on cracking risk of Jinping high and steep slope
• Mechanism and numerical simulation on geological mechanical model test
• Time-dependent behaviour modeling of geomaterials using a discrete thermodynamic approach
• Study of time-dependent behavior of rocks with polycrystalline approach
• 9 Reliability-based design and limit state design in geotechnical engineering
• Serviceability limit state design of lime-cement columns-a reliability-based design approach
• Cost-effective framework for simplified geotechnical reliability-based design
• Reliability index of pile foundations designed to SANS 1016–5
• Codified reliability-based design of shallow foundations in Shanghai
• Development and reliability of a pile driving formula for the MnDOT
• On the validation of reliability and partial safety factors for axially loaded piles in dense sand
• Reliability-based evaluation of vertical bearing capacity of piles using FORM and MCS
• Reliability-based design for the serviceability state design of an excavation with cross walls in clays
• 10 Risk assessment and management in geotechnical engineering and infrastructural projects
• Indicator Kriging for locating risk zones: An application to buildings at risk in the Barcelonnette Basin
• Development of a probabilistic model for the prediction of building damage due to tunneling induced settlements
• A three-level framework for multi-risk assessment
• Rockfall risk management based on survey data of real slopes
• Implementing geo risk management in a client organization
• Implementing geo risk management in the construction industry
• The buildup and assessment of environmental indices for storm induced disaster prone areas
• 11 Geotechnical applications and case studies
• Ultrasound as a new approach for the prediction of collapsible soils
• Effect of riverbed scouring on bridge piles during earthquake
• Risk minimization by an adapted dewatering scheme at the construction of the new ship lock in Minden
• Geotechnical instrumentation monitoring for the construction of the West Kowloon Terminus of the Express Rail Link
• The impact of geometry bedding toward slope stability in coal mining
• Risk identification and mitigation for construction of a subway transfer station in Beijing
• Ground considerations for crane footings adjacent deep rock excavations
• Upper bound finite element method for seismic stability limit analysis of rockfill dams
• Author index