We create a composite variable (or integrated variable), corresponding to the union of geology and surficial formation, in order to avoid the conditional dependence between these two variables and to build a geotechnical variable.
Due to the variable geotechnical conditions in these areas, which occasionally cause extensive changes between soil layers within a close distance, the stress-deformation field is very complicated and extended, making it difficult to select and design a proper and safe support system.
Nandi et al. (2009) noted that shales are often intensely fractured and weathered and have highly variable geotechnical characteristics, which cause significant construction problems and damage to civil structures each year.
This paper presents the results of a review of the state-of-the-art for characterizing the uncertainty in geotechnical, structural, and hydraulic variables required for performing reliability analysis of hurricane risk reduction structures.
Its content as obtained by the methylene blue adsorption method is relatively low, 28 to 49%; however, it is the dominant variable affecting geotechnical parameters of this bentonite.
The behavior of a controlled excavation using the proposed support system in Ahvaz city which possesses variable and complex geotechnical properties, was investigated, and the displacement values during the construction and the progress of the excavation were examined and assessed.
Site-specific geotechnical data are always random and variable in space.
The influence of consideration of spatially variable soil parameters on the reliability-based geotechnical deign is studied for the two cases i.e. (a) bearing capacity analysis of a shallow foundation resting on a clayey soil, and (b) analysis of stability and deformation pattern of a cohesive-frictional soil slope.
This variable degree of redundancy is quite common in geotechnical design.
Soil moisture refers to the water present in the uppermost part of a field soil and is a state variable controlling a wide array of ecological, hydrological, geotechnical, and meteorological processes.
