Limit State Design In Geotechnical Engineering Practice, Proceedings Of The International Workshop Lsd2003 (With Cd-rom)

This publication contains the abstracts of 20 papers, the majority of which were presented at the International Workshop on Limit State Design in Geotechnical Engineering Practice (LSD2003). The complete contributions are available in the accompanying CD-Rom. The topics covered include: performance-based and limit-state-design philosophies; issues arising from the implementation of limit-state-design codes; elaborations of "measured values," "derived values" and "characteristic values"; reliability-based methodologies for analytical calibration of partial factors; and application of partial factors in FEM where highly nonlinear force-deformation behaviors may be applicable.