Probabilistic Analysis of the External Stability of MSE Structures Using Monte Carlo Simulations (original) (raw)

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The external stability of mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls is modelled following a stochastic approach. The model computes the probability of failure of a system in series with three components. Computations are performed using Monte Carlo simulations for assumed probability distributions of the involved random variables. Dependency between failure mechanisms is taken into account by means of coefficients of linear

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