Abstract: Soil has spatial variability, which means that soil properties at different locations are different but correlated. To represent the spatial variability of soil surrounding a pile, the random field method (RFM) is usually ...

Abstract: In the random field model’s consideration of the spatial variability of soil, soil properties at different locations play different roles in the reliability analysis of the foundation. Investigating the importance distribution ...

Abstract: At present, the reliability analysis and design method of vertically loaded piles embedded in spatially variable soils is difficult to be applied in practical engineering due to the huge computation effort required. To ...