This is the first book to revisit geotechnical site characterization
from a probabilistic point of view and provide rational tools to
probabilistically characterize geotechnical properties and underground
stratigraphy using limited information obtained from a specific site.
This book not only provides new probabilistic approaches for
geotechnical site characterization and slope stability analysis, but
also tackles the difficulties in practical implementation of these
approaches. In addition, this book also develops efficient Monte Carlo
simulation approaches for slope stability analysis and implements these
approaches in a commonly available spreadsheet environment. These
approaches and the software package are readily available to
geotechnical practitioners and alleviate them from reliability
computational algorithms. The readers will find useful information for a
non-specialist to determine project-specific statistics of geotechnical
properties and to perform probabilistic analysis of slope stability.