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Lundberg, A.B. (author), Li, Y. (author)A full geotechnical risk analysis includes site investigation, model simplification and analysis. The site characterization forms the basis for the choice of the soil parameters used in the subsequent analysis, but the soil data is normally analyzed with crude methods that do not include the effect of the soil variability. A case study is here...conference paper 2015
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Advances in reliability analysis of the piping failure mechanism of flood defences in the NetherlandsSchweckendiek, T. (author), Kanning, W. (author), Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (author)Piping is one of the main failure mechanisms for flood defences. This paper gives an overview of recent developments in the reliability analysis for this mechanism in the Netherlands. These comprise new approaches in the treatment of heterogeneity of the subsoil with respect to the failure process, the inclusion of information from field...journal article 2014