Abstract: The stability analyses of tetrahedral wedges in rock slopes are commonly conducted using the versatile sequential vectorial operations or stereographic projection methods. This paper presents an alternative approach using ...

Abstract: Reliability analysis and reliability-based design (RBD) via the first-order reliability method (FORM) can overcome some limitations and ambiguities in the load and resistance factor design (LRFD) approach, for example in ...

Abstract: Conventional limit equilibrium methods are commonly used to assess the stability of embankments. The finite-element method, as an alternative to limit equilibrium methods, is being increasingly used in the deterministic ...

Abstract: An alternative approach of analyzing laterally loaded piles in the ubiquitous spreadsheet platform is presented. The numerical procedure couples nonlinear pile flexural rigidity

Abstract: A practical method using spreadsheets is proposed for calculating the Hasofer-Lind second moment reliability index β. Two example problems involving correlated normals and correlated nonnormals, respectively, are solved ...

Abstract: A new spreadsheet-cell-object-oriented algorithm for the first-order reliability method is proposed and illustrated for cases with correlated nonnormals and explicit and implicit performance functions. The new approach ...

Abstract: Chen and Morgenstern extended Morgenstern and Price's method of slices by expressing force and moment equilibrium in two equations involving multiple integrals. In the present study a practical nested quadrature integration ...

Abstract: Model tests and theoretical analysis were done to investigate the arching in embankments on soft ground supported by piles with cap beams and geo‐textiles. The cap‐beam‐and‐geotextile combination may alleviate the uneven ...