Recent trends in the modeling and quantification of non-probabilistic uncertainty

M Faes, D Moens - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2020 - Springer
This paper gives an overview of recent advances in the field of non-probabilistic uncertainty
quantification. Both techniques for the forward propagation and inverse quantification of …

Stability and characterisation of spoil heaps in European surface lignite mines: a state-of-the-art review in light of new data

MS Masoudian, IE Zevgolis, AV Deliveris… - Environmental Earth …, 2019 - Springer
The large amount of spoil material produced during the mining process imposes a
significant economic and environmental liability on lignite producers. In this context, the …

Slope stability machine learning predictions on spatially variable random fields with and without factor of safety calculations

M Aminpour, R Alaie, S Khosravi, N Kardani… - Computers and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Random field Monte Carlo (MC) reliability analysis is a robust stochastic method to
determine the probability of failure. This method, however, requires a large number of …

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 …

On the use of copulas in geotechnical engineering: A tutorial and state-of-the-art-review

JJ Sepúlveda-García, DA Alvarez - Archives of computational methods in …, 2022 - Springer
Copulas are functions that couple marginal distribution in order to generate joint probability
distribution functions; in this way, they model the dependence among random variables …

Subset simulation for efficient slope reliability analysis involving copula-based cross-correlated random fields

MX Wang, XS Tang, DQ Li, XH Qi - Computers and Geotechnics, 2020 - Elsevier
This study proposes a subset simulation (SS)-based approach for efficient slope reliability
analysis involving copula-based cross-correlated random fields of cohesion (c) and friction …

Modeling multivariate cross-correlated geotechnical random fields using vine copulas for slope reliability analysis

XS Tang, MX Wang, DQ Li - Computers and Geotechnics, 2020 - Elsevier
Modeling multivariate cross-correlated random fields plays an important role in reliability
analysis of geotechnical systems. The cross-correlation among random fields is commonly …

Reliability evaluation of slope considering geological uncertainty and inherent variability of soil parameters

ZP Deng, DQ Li, XH Qi, ZJ Cao, KK Phoon - Computers and Geotechnics, 2017 - Elsevier
Geological uncertainty is often ignored in slope reliability analysis, even though the inherent
variability of soil parameters is considered. This paper aims to propose a method for slope …

Influence of copula approaches on reliability analysis of slope stability using random adaptive finite element limit analysis

TS Nguyen, S Likitlersuang… - … for Numerical and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, random field copulas have been deployed to characterise the dependent
structures of spatially variable soil parameters. This study expands on this concept by …

Risk assessment of soil slope failure considering copula-based rotated anisotropy random fields

CWW Ng, C Qu, RWM Cheung, H Guo, J Ni… - Computers and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In natural slopes, apart from isotropic and transversely anisotropic soil fabric, rotated
anisotropic soil fabric is also commonly observed due to deposition and weathering …