Probabilistic Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Army Corps of Engineers; the Federal Highway Administration; and others, in 1992 the National Research Council's Geotechnical Board formed the Committee on Reliability Methods for Risk Mitigation in Geotechnical Engineering to examine the reasons for the seemingly slow acceptance of formal probabilistic methods in geotechnical engineering practice and to explore the potential for their wider use. This report is the result of that study.
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Probability theory should be used along with these more traditional geotechnical engineering tools. The committee finds that for a wide range of geotechnical problems, probabilistic methods can provide valuable insights and perspectives beyond those normally obtained from deterministic methods, especially in those cases where experience is inadequate.
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As graduates of geotechnical engineering programs and experienced practitioners become more knowledgeable about the techniques and potential benefits of probabilistic approaches to their problems, the committee expects that the use of probability theory in geotechnical engineering will expand. The committee recommends that the geotechnical engineering community be more actively involved in the development of codes and regulations, especially in the growing geo-environmentalfields.
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