Model Uncertainties in Foundation Design

Chong Tang is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore.Kok-Kwang Phoon is Distinguished Professor and Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at the National University of Singapore.

• 1. Geotechnical Engineering in the Era of Industry 4.0 2. Evaluation and Incorporation of Uncertainties in Geotechnical Engineering 3. Basics in Foundation Engineering 4. Evaluation of Design Methods for Shallow Foundations 5. Evaluation of Design Methods for Offshore Spudcans in Layered Soil 6. Evaluation of Design Methods for Driven Piles and Drilled Shafts 7. Evaluation of Design Methods for Helical Piles 8. Summary and Conclusions Appendix: Data Availability Statement

"The book is written in a manner that is free of jargon and thus removes the mysticism that has dissuaded many practicing engineers to move from classical deterministic treatments of foundation design to a more robust appreciation of margins of safety that considers unavoidable uncertainty in the choice of model geotechnical input parameters and model accuracy."-- Richard J. Bathurst, in Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics"Nowhere else has such a vast compilation of foundation design models and databases been systematically organized and presented. ... The book can serve as a good resource for graduate (advanced) level foundation design classes".-- Naresh C. Samtani in DFI Journal"The authors are also to be complimented with explaining the fundamentals of foundation design and the related uncertainties in the first chapters, making the book accessible experts and relative novices in the field alike."-- Timo Schweckendiek in Georisk"A valuable complement to classical textbooks of foundation engineering."-- Chang-Yu Ou in Journal of GeoEngineering"…successfully fills the existing gap of model uncertainty quantification in the roster of milestone textbooks."-- Marco Uzielli in Rivista Italiana di Geotecnica"It provides an insightful discussion on the role of data in the evolution of geotechnical design and situates this discussion within the larger picture of the future of the economy where data is seen as the 'new oil'."-- Jianye Ching in Structural Safety"we recommend highly this book to geotechnical practitioners, code developers, researchers and research students in foundation engineering."-- Jian Chu and Xiaohui Qi in Acta Geotechnica