Final Program - American Society of Civil Engineers

CONCURRENT TECHNiCAL SESSiONS
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 (cont.)
Location: Grand Ballroom F
Track: Site Characterization, In Situ Testing and Monitoring
10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Geotechnical Uncertainties in Analysis and Design: Site Characterization and Reliability
Applications
Moderators: Kok-Kwang Phoon, National University of Singapore and Jianye Ching, National Taiwan
University
Development of Geospatial Analysis Method to Detect Outlying Data Points
10:03 – 10:13 a.m.
Hyun-Ki Kim, Han-Saem Kim, Si-Yeol Shin, Choong-Ki Chung
Soil Characterisation of an Artificial Island Accounting for Heterogeneity
10:14 – 10:24 a.m.
Marti Lloret, Michael A. Hicks, Shiao Y. Wong
Reliablity Based Design on Long Irrigation Channel Considering the Soil Investigation Locations
10:25 – 10:35 a.m.
Yu Otake, Yusuke Honjo
Examination of Multivariate Dependency Structure in Soil Parameters
10:36 – 10:46 a.m.
Kok-Kwang Phoon, Jianye Ching, Hongwei Huang
An Investigation of Three Probabilistic Approaches for Levee Underseepage Analysis
10:47 – 10:57 a.m.
Sittinan Benjasupattananan, Christopher Meehan
Evaluation of Soil Variability Influence on Deep Excavation Analysis - Simplified Approach
10:58 – 11:08 a.m.
Huu-Phuoc Dang, Horn-Da Lin, C. Hsein Juang
Probabilistic Analysis of Basal Heave in a Braced Excavation in Clay
11:09 – 11:19 a.m.
Zhe Luo, Sez Atamturktur, C. Hsein Juang
Event Tree and Fault Tree Analysis in Tunneling with Imprecise Probabilities
11:20 – 11:30 a.m.
Xiaomin You, Fulvio Tonon
Location: Grand Ballroom G
Track: Earth Stability
10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Stability of Manmade and Natural Slopes and Embankments: Investigation and Design
of Slopes and Embankments
Moderator: Binod Tiwari, California State University, Fullerton
Soil Shear Strength Enhancements from Plant Root Templated Georeinforcements
10:03 – 10:13 a.m.
Drew Johnson, Miguelangel Sauceda, Sazzad Shafique, Jie Huang
Excavation Difficulties in a Stiff Fissured Clay and a Reinforced Earth Wall Solution
10:14 – 10:24 a.m.
Chrysanthos Steiakakis, Zacharias Agioutantis
Backfill Stress and Strain Information within a Centrifuge Geosynthetic-Reinforced Slope Model Under
10:25 – 10:35 a.m. Working Stress and Large Soil Strain Conditions
Kuo-Hsin Yang, Jorge G. Zornberg, Chia-Nan Liu, Horn-Da Lin
Experimental Modeling of Rainfall and Seismic Activities as Landslide Triggers
10:36 – 10:46 a.m.
Binod Tiwari, Adam Lewis
Field Monitoring of Volcanic Slope Subjected to Freezing and Thawing and Its Evaluation
10:47 – 10:57 a.m.
Shima Kawamura, Seiichi Miura
Design of 300m-high Artificial Mountain Using Geosynthetics
10:58 – 11:08 a.m.
A Lahotia, P Jain, Kamal Bajoria, Jnanendra Mandal
Perennial Infiltration-Induced Instability of Interstate-70 Highway Embankment West of the Eisenhower/
11:09 – 11:19 a.m. Johnson Memorial Tunnels
Alexandra Wayllace, Ning Lu, Seboong Oh, David Thomas
Investigation of White Bluffs Landslides in Washington State
11:20 – 11:30 a.m.
Christopher A. Bareither, Tuncer B. Edil, Craig H. Benson
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