Reliability-Based Design in Soil and Rock Engineering : Enhancing Partial Factor Design Approaches (Hardcover)

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 Appendix: An Efficient Spreadsheet Algorithm for FORM