Abstract: This paper presents an application of the second-order reliability method (SORM) to analyze shallow landslides considered as unsaturated infinite soil slopes. The accuracy of modeling the unsaturated infinite slope reliability ...

Abstract: This paper discusses the second-order reliability-based design optimization (SORBDO) of unsaturated finite slopes. An efficient search algorithm is proposed to locate the most probable slip surfaces using the Morgenstern–Price ...

Abstract: A novel framework was developed for the stability analysis of spatially variable slopes under rainfall by approximating the performance function in standard normal space by a second-order surface at the design point. ...

Abstract: A novel statistical framework was developed to quantify the variability of the fitting parameters of the soil–water characteristic curve (SWCC). Reliable estimation of the mean, standard deviation, and associated probability ...

Abstract: An experimental investigation was carried out to evaluate the influence of fines content on the hysteretic behavior of water-retention characteristic curves (WRCCs) of reconstituted soil subjected to wetting and drying ...