Combining reliability and costs in axial pile design

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2013

Authors

Ana Teixeira (Author) FEUP; António Gomes Correia (Author) Other; António Abel Henriques (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: State of the Art of Pile Foundation and Pile Case Histories

Pages: 1-9

Pile 2013 International Conference on State of the Art of Pile Foundation and Pile Case Histories

Bandung, Indonesia, 2 to 4 June 2013

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Civil engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Civil engineering > Geotechnics ; Technological sciences > Engineering > Civil engineering

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Abstract (EN): Nowadays, social concerns, such as the sustainability and the economy, and also the new regulation design codes are imposing geotechnical engineers to adjust the design methodologies. The new design methodologies should be reliability-based and provide more rational designs that should also be economic and sustainable. On this matter, this work presents a combination of the reliability-based analyses with a cost-effect study in pile foundation design. The mail goal is to match the needs for a particular problem and adequate the efforts to gather the information necessary to achieve a certain reliability level and decrease the chances of additional costs and/or other implications due to unforeseen ground conditions or pile capacity. An example is provided to demonstrate the use of such methodology both in the site investigation stage and the pile design stage.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 9