摘要： ► Reliability study of basal-heave failure in a braced excavation. ► Examine the effect of 2-D spatial variability on failure probability. ► Random fielding modeling of soils for basal-heave stability analysis. ► Simplified approach for handling spatial variability through variance reduction. A simplified approach to consider the effect of spatial variability in a two-dimensional (2-D) random field for reliability analysis of basal-heave in a braced excavation in clay is presented. In contrast to the random field modeling (RFM) approach, which necessitates use of Monte Carlo simulation (MCS), the proposed approach employs the equivalent variance technique to consider the effect of spatial variability so that the analysis for probability of basal-heave failure can be performed using well-established first-order reliability method (FORM). Case study shows that this simplified approach yields results that are nearly identical to those obtained from the MCS-based RFM approach. The proposed approach is shown to be effective and efficient for probabilistic analysis of basal-heave in a braced excavation in a 2-D random field. 出版者： Elsevier Ltd 出版日期： 2012 出處： Computers and geotechnics, 2012, Vol.39, p.27-37 資源來源： ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Journals 版權： 2011 Elsevier Ltd 識別號： ISSN: 0266-352X 識別號： EISSN: 1873-7633 識別號： DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2011.08.005
