Reliability assessment of slopes with three-dimensional rotated transverse anisotropy in soil properties

Three-Way Two-Dimensional Deterministic Finite Automata with Rotated Inputs

Inoue et al. introduced an automaton on a twodimensional tape, which decides acceptance or rejection of an input tape by scanning the tape from various sides by various automata which move one way, and investigated the accepting power of such an automaton. This paper continues the investigation of this type of automata, especially, ∨-type automata (obtained by combining four three-way two-dimen...

Enhancement of random finite element method in reliability analysis and risk assessment of soil slopes using Subset Simulation

Random finite element method (RFEM) provides a rigorous tool to incorporate spatial variability of soil properties into reliability analysis and risk assessment of slope stability. However, it suffers from a common criticism of requiring extensive computational efforts and a lack of efficiency, particularly at small probability levels (e.g., slope failure probability Pf<0.001). To address this ...

Three-dimensional solutions for general anisotropy

The Stroh formalism is extended to provide a new class of three-dimensional solutions for the generally anisotropic elastic material that have polynomial dependence on x3, but which have quite general form in x1; x2. The solutions are obtained by a sequence of partial integrations with respect to x3, starting from Stroh’s two-dimensional solution. At each stage, certain special functions have t...

Transverse confinement of waves in three-dimensional random media.

We study the transmission of a tightly focused beam through a thick slab of three-dimensional disordered medium in the Anderson localized regime. We show that the transverse profile of the transmitted beam exhibits clear signatures of Anderson localization and that its mean square width provides a direct measure of the localization length. For a short incident pulse, the width is independent of...

Use of a genetic algorithm to perform reliability analysis of unsaturated soil slopes