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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Volume 465, Issue 2110, Pages 3145-3164Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2009.0165
Keywords
three dimensional; slope stability; finite-element method; probability of failure; spatial correlation; random fields
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- NSF [CMS-0408150]
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The paper investigates the probability of failure of two-dimensional and three-dimensional slopes using the random finite-element method (RFEM). In this context, RFEM combines elastoplastic finite-element algorithms with random field theory in a Monte Carlo framework. Full account is taken of local averaging and variance reduction over each element, and an exponentially decaying (Markov) spatial correlation function is incorporated. It is found that two-dimensional probabilistic analysis, which implicitly assumes perfect spatial correlation in the out-of-plane direction, may underestimate the probability of failure of slopes.
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