Recent advances in geotechnical risk and reliability

Abstract

Developments in geotechnical risk and reliability are driven by the emergence of new design codes that consider uncertainties more explicitly and increasing demand for quantitative risk assessment and management of complex projects and/or natural hazards. Complex projects are natural outcomes of increasing urbanization while natural hazards appear to be more frequent in part due to climate change. Increasing urbanization also increases the consequences of failure when natural hazards are physically realized as natural disasters.

Topics of interest to this mini-symposium are :(1) risk assessment and management of engineered systems (excavations, tunnels, dams, engineered slopes etc), (2) risk assessment and management of natural hazards (landslides, earthquakes, debris flows etc), (3) code development, calibration, and harmonization, (4) reliability-based design, calibration, and optimization, (5) reliability analysis, (6) stochastic computational methods, (7) spatial variability and site characterization, (8) model uncertainties, and (9) other related topics, e.g. Bayesian updating, etc.

Organizers

KK Phoon, National University of Singapore, Singapore, (cvepkk@nus.edu.sg)
JY Ching, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
CH Juang, Clemson University, USA