Abstract: Recent studies on the validity of some variational methods applied to stability problems in soil mechanics point out the existence of some important errors in their statement. These errors seem to be due to the lack of a ...

Abstract: This paper discusses some of the existing statistical models for the analysis of extreme value data in the case of independence, pointing out their excellence and possible sources of error. Initially, the concept of order ...

Abstract: In the highway development process, the first planning stage is that of selecting a corridor along which the highway is to pass. Highway corridor selection represents a multicriteria decision process in which a variety of ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new method for engineering design that allows controlling safety factors and failure probabilities with respect to different modes of failure. Since failure probabilities are very sensitive to tail ...

Abstract: The relation between the total strain amplitude and the fatigue life measured in cycles is usually given as strain-life curves based on the former proposals of Basquin, for the elastic ...