[HTML][HTML] Geotechnical uncertainty, modeling, and decision making

KK Phoon, ZJ Cao, J Ji, YF Leung, S Najjar… - Soils and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Modeling only constitutes one aspect of decision making. The prevailing limitation of
applying modeling to practice is the absence of explicit consideration of uncertainties. This …

Scale of fluctuation for spatially varying soils: estimation methods and values

B Cami, S Javankhoshdel, KK Phoon… - ASCE-ASME Journal of …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Spatial variability is one of the major sources of uncertainty in geotechnical applications.
This variability is characterized customarily by the scale of fluctuation. Scale of fluctuation …

On the estimation of scale of fluctuation in geostatistics

M Lloret-Cabot, GA Fenton, MA Hicks - Georisk: Assessment and …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Describing how soil properties vary spatially is of particular importance in stochastic
analyses of geotechnical problems, because spatial variability has a significant influence on …

Probabilistic characterization of Young's modulus of soil using equivalent samples

Y Wang, Z Cao - Engineering Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
Several probability-based design codes (eg, load and resistance factor design (LRFD)
codes and Eurocode 7) have been developed and implemented around the world recently …

Soil variability analysis for geotechnical practice

M Uzielli, S Lacasse, F Nadim… - … properties of natural …, 2007 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The heterogeneity of natural soils is well known in geotechnical practice. However, the
importance of quantifying the resulting variability in geotechnical characterisation and …

Non-parametric simulation of non-stationary non-gaussian 3D random field samples directly from sparse measurements using signal decomposition and Markov …

T Zhao, Y Wang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2020 - Elsevier
With the ever-growing computational power of personal computers over the past few
decades, stochastic simulation of spatially varying three-dimensional (3D) quantities has …

Characterization of autocovariance parameters of detrended cone tip resistance from a global CPT database

J Ching, M Uzielli, KK Phoon, X Xu - Journal of Geotechnical and …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
This paper compiles a cone penetration test (CPT) database, named Global-CPT/3/1196. It
contains three CPT parameters (cone tip resistance, sleeve friction, and porewater pressure) …

Uncertainty reduction and sampling efficiency in slope designs using 3D conditional random fields

YJ Li, MA Hicks, PJ Vardon - Computers and Geotechnics, 2016 - Elsevier
A method of combining 3D Kriging for geotechnical sampling schemes with an existing
random field generator is presented and validated. Conditional random fields of soil …

Direct simulation of random field samples from sparsely measured geotechnical data with consideration of uncertainty in interpretation

Y Wang, T Zhao, KK Phoon - Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2018 - cdnsciencepub.com
Random field theory has been increasingly used in probabilistic geotechnical analyses over
the past few decades, where a random field generator with random field parameters is …

Time capsule for geotechnical risk and reliability

M Chwała, KK Phoon, M Uzielli, J Zhang… - … and management of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper is motivated by the Time Capsule Project (TCP) of the International Society for
Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). The historical developments of …