Download or read book Proceedings of the International Workshop on Limit State Design in Geotechnical Engineering Practice written by Robert Bruce Gilbert and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 (special lecture not included). The topics covered include: performance-based and limit state design philosophies; issues arising from the implementation of limit state design codes; elaborations of OC measured valuesOCO, OC derived valuesOCO and OC characteristic valuesOCO; reliability-based methodologies for analytical calibration of partial factors; and application of partial factors in FEM where highly nonlinear force-deformation behaviors may govern."