Proceedings of the International Workshop on Limit State Design in Geotechnical Engineering Practice

Download or read book Proceedings of the International Workshop on Limit State Design in Geotechnical Engineering Practice written by Kok-Kwang Phoon and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topics covered include: performance-based and limit state design philosophies; issues arising from the implementation of limit state design codes; elaborations of "measured values", "derived values" and "characteristic values"; reliability-based methodologies for analytical calibration of partial factors; and application of partial factors in FEM where highly nonlinear force-deformation behaviors may govern. Readership: Graduate students, academics and researchers in civil engineering, earthquake engineering and engineering mechanics.