A ground characterisation exercise was conducted in order to identify sites suitable for a blast furnace at the Redcar steelworks in northeast England. The purpose of this exercise, conducted some 20 years after the investigations were carried out and a decade after the steelworks had been constructed, was to develop techniques for managing spatial data using Geographical Information Systems (G...

This paper is a summary of findings and recommendations of a Consortium of Organizations for Strong-Motion Operating Systems (COSMOS)/ Pacific Earthquake Engineering Center (PEER) Lifelines Program workshop on archiving and web dissemination of geotechnical data held on October 4 and 5, 2001. The concept that emerged from the workshop is a central hub that would function as a virtual data cente...

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are a form of artificial intelligence and, since the mid-1990s, ANNbased models have been successfully applied to virtually every problem in geotechnical engineering. This paper briefly examines the areas of geotechnical engineering to which ANNs have been applied, provides a brief overview of the operation of ANN models, and highlights and discusses four impor...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of copulas for constructing the bivariate distribution of shear strength parameters on system reliability of geotechnical structures. First, the bivariate distribution of shear strength parameters is constructed using copulas. Second, the implementation procedure of system reliability analysis using direct Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) is ...

1) Department Civil and Environmental Engineering, KAP 230A, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089; Tel: 213-740-6140; Email: [email protected] 2) COSMOS, Building 454, Room 121, 1301 South 46 Street, Richmond, CA 94804-4698; Tel: 510-231-9436 and 830830-833-5446; Email: [email protected] 3) California Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey, 801 K. Street MS 12...

holocene in southwest khuzestan is represented by a fluvio-tidal succession termed thebahmanshir series which consists of two clayey layers separated by silty sand to silt beds. this paperdescribes the geotechnical properties of the clayey layers that have wide exposure in the lowlands of thepersian gulf coast. studied layers are generally clay sized and consist of a lesser percentage of clay m...

The research area is located at Batu Hijau Mine – PT Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara, administratively located at the southwestern of Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara Province – Indonesia. The research area is controlled by tectonism in accordance to close with the active tectonic plate at southern part of this island. The presence of the active tectonic regime causes of the rich deposit of ore minerali...

Millions of financial losses and thousands of people which die are due to earthquakes that happen every now and then in all corners of the world. Safety against the hazards of earthquake relates to two basic factors: safety of the structure and site. Site's conditions play an important role in damages of structures. This factor has a geotechnical cause and could be appeared as seismic wave ampl...