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 …

Spatial variability of soil properties was rarely taken into account directly in traditional slope
stability analyses, rather some “average” or suitably “pessimistic” properties are assumed to …

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 …

Geotechnical characterization of a project site for engineering applications is indispensable
in engineering geology and geotechnical engineering, and there are many unavoidable …

Canada has two national civil codes of practice that include geotechnical design provisions:
the National Building Code of Canada and the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code. For …

The heterogeneity of natural soils is well known in geotechnical practice. However, the
importance of quantifying the resulting variability in geotechnical characterisation and …

The sparse polynomial chaos expansion is employed to perform a probabilistic analysis of
the tunnel face stability in the spatially random soils. A shield tunnel under compressed air is …

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) …

It is important to be able to construct a site-specific multivariate probability density function
(PDF) of soil parameters based on limited and incomplete site-specific investigation data …

Because information collected in a site investigation is limited, it is not possible to obtain
actual values for the mean, standard deviation, and scale of fluctuation for a soil property of …