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Partial Safety Factors for Geotechnical Bearing Capacity of Port Structures  

Yoon, Gil-Lim (Coastal Engineering & Ocean Energy Research Department, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute)
Yoon, Yeo-Won (Department of Civil Engineering, Inha University)
Kim, Hong-Yeon (Coastal Engineering & Ocean Energy Research Department, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute)
Kim, Baeck-Oon (Kunsan National University, Samangeum Environmental Research Center)
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Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers / v.22, no.3, 2010 , pp. 156-162 More about this Journal
Abstract
When eccentric or inclined load acts on foundation of the port & harbor structures, partial safety factors of bearing capacity limit state were estimated using reliability analysis. Current Korean technical standards of port and harbor structures recommend to estimate the geotechnical bearing capacity using the simplified Bishop method. In practice, however, simple method of comparing ground reaction resistance with allowable bearing capacity has been mostly used by design engineers. While the simple method gives just one number fixed but somewhat convenient, it could not consider the uncertainty of soil properties depending on site by site. Thus, in this paper, partial safety factors for each design variable were determined so that designers do perform reliability-based level 1 design for bearing capacity limit state. For these, reliability index and their sensitivities were gained throughout the first order reliability method(FORM), and the variability of the random variables was also considered. In order to verify partial safety factors determined here, a comparison with foreign design codes was carried out and were found to be reasonable in practical design.
Keywords
reliability-based design; partial safety factor; slope stability; bearing capacity; limit state design; Eurocode 7;
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