Abstract: Recent years have seen rapidly growing research into applied probability and increased interest in applications to geotechnical engineering practice. Unfortunately, probability still remains a mystery to many engineers, ...

Abstract: Probabilistic methods are potentially useful in four stages of a typical project: site characterization and evaluation, evaluation of designs, decision making, and construction control. In evaluation of projects, it can ...

Abstract: In recent years, new seismic design methods for gravity retaining walls, based on the earthquake‐induced permanent displacement of the wall, have been proposed. These methods generally ignore the effects of ground motion ...

Abstract: The dynamic response of a 10.7 m (35 ft) thick dry sand layer was modeled on the Cambridge University centrifuge at scale factors of 35 and 80. A stack of teflon‐coated aluminum rings and a latex membrane confined a ...

Abstract: A method is presented for evaluating the earthquake‐induced permanent displacements for sliding blocks. Given the distributions of the limiting accelerations and the ground motion parameters, this method will give the ...

Abstract: Several formulae and charts have been published for correcting the results of the standard penetration test (SPT) performed in sands for the effects of overburden pressure. However, depending on which published correction ...