Scale of fluctuation for spatially varying soils: estimation methods and values

B Cami, S Javankhoshdel, KK Phoon… - ASCE-ASME Journal of …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Spatial variability is one of the major sources of uncertainty in geotechnical applications.
This variability is characterized customarily by the scale of fluctuation. Scale of fluctuation …

State-of-the-art review of geotechnical-driven artificial intelligence techniques in underground soil-structure interaction

SC Jong, DEL Ong, E Oh - Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
There has been an increasing demand for underground construction due to urbanization
and limited land in metropolitan cities in the recent years. However, the behavior of …

Assessment of pile drivability using random forest regression and multivariate adaptive regression splines

W Zhang, C Wu, Y Li, L Wang… - Georisk: Assessment and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Driven pile is widely used as an effective and convenient structural component to transfer
superstructure loads to deep stiffer soils. Nevertheless, during the design process of piles …

Constructing quasi-site-specific multivariate probability distribution using hierarchical Bayesian model

J Ching, S Wu, KK Phoon - Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
In geotechnical engineering, it is challenging to construct a site-specific multivariate
probability distribution model for soil/rock properties because the site-specific data are …

Constructing site-specific multivariate probability distribution model using Bayesian machine learning

J Ching, KK Phoon - Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
This study proposes a novel data-driven Bayesian machine learning method for constructing
site-specific multivariate probability distribution models in geotechnical engineering. There …

Hierarchical Bayesian model for predicting small-strain stiffness of sand

Y Tao, KK Phoon, H Sun, Y Cai - Canadian Geotechnical …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
This paper develops a hierarchical Bayesian model (HBM) that integrates the physical
knowledge and the test data to predict the small-strain shear modulus G max for a target …

The story of statistics in geotechnical engineering

KK Phoon - Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The story of statistics in geotechnical engineering can be traced to Lumb's classical
Canadian Geotechnical Journal paper on “The Variability of Natural Soils” published in …

A hierarchical Bayesian similarity measure for geotechnical site retrieval

A Sharma, J Ching, KK Phoon - Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
Geotechnical site retrieval refers to the quantitative identification and extraction of sites
similar to a given target site from predocumented generic sites in a database. This is known …

Role of reliability calculations in geotechnical design

KK Phoon - Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This paper adds to the ongoing discussion on the role of reliability calculations in
geotechnical design. It situates design calculations, be it verified by a global factor of safety …

A spectral algorithm for quasi-regional geotechnical site clustering

A Sharma, J Ching, KK Phoon - Computers and Geotechnics, 2023 - Elsevier
Geotechnical site clustering refers to identifying (or learning) groups in a site-labelled
soil/rock database based on inter-site similarity. It is common to cluster sites in a “region” in …