GEOTECHNICAL
SPECIAL
PUBLICATION
NO.
229
Foundation Engineering the
in
Face of Uncertainty
Honoring Fred H. Kulhawy
SPONSORED
The Geo-lnstitute of the American
BY
Society
of Civil
Engineers
EDITED BY
James L. Withiam, Ph.D., P.E.
Kok-Kwang Phoon, Ph.D., P.E. Mohamad H. Huss Hussein, ein, P.E.
GEO-
ASCE ASC E Published by the American Society of Civil Engineer
INSTITUTE
Contents
Preface
ix
Biography
xi
Awards and Honors with Citations Theses and Dissertations
xv
xix
Supervised
Publications Introduction
to Selected
xxiii
Kulhawy Papers
xlvii
Author List
li
Selected Papers Authored and Co-Authored All
by Fred H. Kulhawy
reproduced with permission
Geomechanical Model for Rock Foundation Settlement Fred H.
1
Kulhawy
From Journal of the Geotechnical
Engineering Division, ASCE, 104(GT2),
1978,211-227.
Limiting Tip Fred
H.
and Side Resistance: Fact
or
Fallacy?
18
Kulhawy
From Analysis and Design ofPile Foundations, ASCE,
Ground Water Influences F. H.
•
Kulhawy
on
1984, 80-98.
Foundation Side Resistance
37
and J. F. Beech
Proceedings, 9th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (2), Dublin, 1987,707-710. From
The Soil-Rock
Fred H.
Boundary: What Is It
Kulhawy,
From Detection
Charles H.
and Where Is It?
Trautmann,
41
and Thomas D. O'Rourke
of and Construction at the Soil/Rock Interface (GSP28),
ASCE, 1991, 1-15. On the Evaluation of Static Soil Properties Fred H.
56
Kulhawy
Stability and Performance of Slopes andEmbankments II(GSP3J), ASCE, 1992, 95-115. From
From Casagrande's "Calculated Risk" to
Engineering: Fred H.
Reliability-Based Design
in Foundation
The Sixth Arthur Casagrande Memorial Lecture
77
Kulhawy
(Journal of the Boston Society Engineers Section/ASCE), 11(2), 1996, 43-56. From Civil Engineering Practice
of Civil
What Is Foundation Failure?
Fred H.
Kulhawy
and Anwar
91
Hirany
Proceedings, International Conference Singapore, 1997, 35-41. From
iii
on Foundation Failures,
Characterization of Geotechnical Variability
Kok-Kwang Phoon
and Fred H.
98
Kulhawy
From Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 36(4), 1999,612-624. Evaluation of Geotechnical Property Variability
Ill
Kok-Kwang Phoon and Fred H. Kulhawy From Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 36(4), 1999,625-639. Observations Fred H. From On
on
Some Shortcomings in
Deep Foundation Analysis
and
Design
126
Kulhawy
Deep Foundations 2002 (GSP116), ASCE, 2002, 1-5.
the Interpretation of Drilled Foundation Load Test
Results
131
Hirany and Fred H. Kulhawy From Deep Foundations 2002 (GSP 116), ASCE, 2002,1018-1028.
Anwar
Observations
on
Geotechnical Reliability-Based Design Development
in North America
142
Kulhawy and K. K. Phoon
F. H.
From Foundation Design Codes and Soil Investigation in View of
International Harmonization
and Performance Based
Design, Balkema, 2002,
31-48.
Multiple Resistance Factor Design for Shallow Transmission Line Structure Foundations
160
Kok-Kwang Phoon, Fred H.
Kulhawy,
and Mircea D.
Grigoriu
From Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE,
129(9), 2003,807-818. On
the Uplift Behaviour of
Kulhawy, Harry
Fred H.
From
Spread Foundations E.
172
Stewart, and Charles H. Trautmann
Proceedings, International Symposium
on Shallow
Foundations (1),
Paris, 2003, 327-334. On
the Axial Behavior of Drilled Foundations Fred H. From
180
Kulhawy GeoSupport2004: Drilled Shafts, Micropiling, Deep Mixing,
Remedial Methods, and Specialty Foundation Systems (GSP 124), ASCE,
2004, 34-51. Issues in
Evaluating Capacity
of Rock Socket Foundations
198
F. H.
Kulhawy and W. A. Prakoso From Proceedings, 16th Southeast Asian Geotechnical Conference, Kuala Lumpur, 2007, 51-61.
Uncertainty, Reliability, Lumb
and Foundation
Engineering:
The 5th Peter
Lecture
Fred H. From
209
Kulhawy Transactions, Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, 17(3), 2010, 19-
24.
iv
Contributed Papers
Uncertainty and Risk
Screening Geotechnical Risks Gregory Baecher and John Acco unti ng
for
215 T. Christian
Certainty
225
Milton E. Harr
Engineering Geology: Fundamental Input
or
Random Variable?
232
R. Keaton
Jeffrey Ground
Uncertainty Implications
Method
to
Underground Works:
in the
Application of the Observational Comparative Examples
254
Joao Bile Serra and Luis Miranda
Geotechnical Uncertainties Tien H.
and
Reliability-Based Design
271
Wu
Characterization of Soil Parameters
Hydrologic Properties Craig
Variability on
of Final Cover Soils
283
H. Benson and Tayfun Gurdal
of Soil Properties and
Reliability of Empirical Equations
Soil Settlement Predictions Omer
298
Bilgin and Eman Mansour
Second-Moment Characterization of Undrained Shear Strengths
from Different Test Procedures
308
Jianye Ching, Kok-Kwang Phoon, and Wen-Ting Lee Soil Modulus Correlations
321
J. Michael Duncan and Andrew
Bursey
Multivariate Model for Soil Parameters Based
Kok-Kwang Phoon
on
Johnson Distributions
337
and Jianye Ching
Wetting Effect on CBR Properties of Compacted Fine-Grained Residual Soils Widjojo A. Prakoso Bayesian Characterization
of Transformation
354
Uncertainty for Strength
and Stiffness of Sands
368
Marco Uzielli and Paul W.
Mayne Spatial Variability
A
Simple Method
on
to Assess the Effects of
the Performance of
Yusuke
Honjo
Soil Spatial Variability
a Shallow Foundation
385
and Yu Otake
Assessing Soil Correlation Distances and Fractal Behavior
405
Mark B. Jaksa
Evaluation of Common Interpolation Algorithms for Site Characterization David Lacey, Burt Look, and David Williams
v
421
Scale of Fluctuation of Geotechnical Parameters Estimated From CPTu and Laboratory Test Data
434
Site Onyejekwe and Louis Ge
Distinguishing between Data Uncertainty and Natural Variability in Virtual Geotechnical Databases
•
444
J. David Rogers and Jae-Won Chung
Reliability Analysis Reliability of Suction Caissons for Deep Water Floating Facilities Edward C. Clukey, Robert B. Gilbert, Knut H.
Andersen, and Rune Dahlberg
Reliability-Based Design of Laterally Loaded Piles Considering Soil Spatial Variability Haijian Fan and Robert
Capacity Mircea
475
Liang
Reliability Assessment of Diaphragm Wall Deflections in Soft Clays Anth ony T. C. Goh, Feng Xuan, and Wengang Zhang On
456
of Pile Foundations
487
497
Grigoriu
Bearing Capacity of Vertically Loaded Foundations Shirato, Tetsuya Kohno, and Shoichi Nakatani
Model Errors in Masahiro
Reliability Analysis of Long Multi-Segment Earth Slopes
505
520
Erik Vanmarcke and Yuki Otsubo
Updating Uncertain Soil Parameters by Maximum Likelihood Method for Predicting Maximum Ground Lei Wang, Zhe Luo,
and Wall Movements in Braced Excavations
530
and C. Hsein Juang
Stochastic Analysis of Hydraulic Hysteresis in Multi-Layer Unsaturated
Soil Covers under Random Flux Boundary Conditions Chao
Yang, Daichao Sheng, and John
542
P. Carter
Reliability-Based Design Estimation of Resistance Factors for Reliability-Based Design Foundations in Cohesionless Soils under Earthquake
of Shallow
Loading
555
Sami O. Akbas and Erhan Tekin
System Reliability-Based Load Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) for External Seismic Stability of Reinforced Soil Walls
570
B. Munwar Basha and G. L. Sivakumar Babu
LRFD Calibration of Metallic Reinforced Soil Walls
585
Richard J. Bathurst, Tony M. Allen, Yoshihisa Miyata, Effects of Spatial Variability
on
Zijun Cao, Jingmei Wang,
Reliability-Based Design
and Yu
and
Bingquan Huang
of Drilled Shafts
602
Wang
An Approach to Assess LRFD- from Load Test and Borehole Data in and outside the
Footprint
of a Drilled Shaft
Harald Klammler, Michael
McVay, Michael Faraone,
vi
617 and David Horhota
Calibration of LRFD-Based Resistance Factors for Soil Nail Pullout
633
Carlos A. Lazarte
Composite Tolerable Settlement
and Horizontal
Displacement Criteria
for Reliability-Based Design of Foundations Limin
Zhang
and
Agnes
M. Y.
645
Ng Case Histories
Integration
of
Design
and Risk Management in Large, Soft Ground
NATM Tunnels
661
Sherif W. Agaiby, Alfred
and
Sayed
Schulter,
Ulrich
Horny, Olav Dollmann,
M. Ahmed
Instrumented Pile Load
Testing Program
for
a
Coal-Fired Power Plant
680
Jose L. M. Clemente and Michael R. Lewis
Foundation for
a
Geometry
and Load
Testing Reduces Uncertainty
Sports Stadium H. Turan
695
Durguno lu
Capacity and Load Movement Bengt H. Fellenius Foundation Design for
Harry
of
a
CFA
High-Rise Tower
G. Poulos, John C.
Pile: A Prediction Event
707
in Karstic Ground
720
Small, and Helen Chow
vii