TC304

The Engineering Practice of Risk Assessment and Management Committee of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) is charged with promoting and enhancing professional activities in geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering in areas related to:

  • Geostatistics and probabilistic site characterization
  • Quantification of uncertainties in performance prediction
  • Reliability-based design
  • Risk-based decision analysis
  • Calibration of LRFD-type geotechnical design codes
  • Project risk management.

 

Special Collection on “Benchmarking Data-Driven Site Characterization Methods” in ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems: Part A. (Click here to see more)

We would like to invite you to contribute to this special collection. If you are keen to submit a paper to this special collection, please contact Takayuki (shuku@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp).

Timelines:

·        1 Sep 2021 Call for papers/Paper solicitation

·        1 Nov 2021 Confirmation of corresponding authors and paper titles

·        1 Apr 2022 Deadline of submission

·        1 Aug 2022 Decision of all papers

 

State-of-the-art review of inherent variability and uncertainty in geotechnical properties and models (Click here to download the report)

This report contains the following contributions:

·        Site-specific statistics for geotechnical properties (Zheng Guan, Yu-Chi Chang, Yu Wang (lead), Adeyemi Aladejare, Dongming Zhang, and Jianye Ching)

·        Site-specific correlations between soil/rock properties (Yelu Zhou, Dongming Zhang (lead), and Jianye Ching)

·        Summary of random field parameters of geotechnical properties (Armin W. Stuedlein (lead), Brigid Cami, Diego Di Curzio, Sina Javankhoshdel, Shin-ichi Nishimura, Wojciech Pula, Giovanna Vessia, Yu Wang, and Jianye Ching)

·        Statistics for geotechnical design model factors (Chong Tang (lead) and Richard Bathurst)

·        Statistics for transformation uncertainties (Jianye Ching (lead) and Ali Noorzad)

·        Determining characteristic values of geotechnical parameters and resistance: an overview (Zi-Jun Cao (lead), Jianye Ching, Guo-Hui Gao, Mikhail Kholmyansky, Ali Noorzad, Timo Schweckendiek, Johan Spross, Mohammad Tabarroki, Xiaohui Tan, Yu Wang, Tengyuan Zhao, and Yan-Guo Zhou)

·        Numerical evidences for worst-case scale of fluctuation (Giovanna Vessia (lead), Yan-Guo Zhou, Andy Leung, Wojciech Pula, Diego Di Curzio, Mohammad Tabarroki, and Jianye Ching)

 

ISSMGE Virtual University

 

15-min short videos coordinated by TC304 Young Group (Andy Leung, Zijun Cao & Lei Wang)

 

TC304 contribution on “Are we overdesigning? – A survey of international practice” (Click here to download the report)

 

304dB publically-available databases compiled by TC304

  • CPT databases
  • Multivariate soil/rock property databases
  • Geospatial databases

Click here to go to the download webpage.

1-page powerpoint for 304dB (standard; wide)

 

TC304/TC309 Machine Learning Reference List

Click here to go to the reference list page.

Note: PART III: APPLICATIONS IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING is open to TC304 members for updates. Please send updates to Zijun Cao (zijuncao@whu.edu.cn) (Download update form).

 

TC304 Notification of Time Capsule Project (TCP)

TC304 has prepared the attached TCP document that tells its story from 1960's to now,

Click here to go to the TCP document.

There is also a 2-page PPT that summarizes this story. (Download 2-page PPT).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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