Date: March 9, 2023 @ 7pm ET
Topic: Geotechnical Engineers Should Embrace Uncertainty
Speaker: Peter K. Robertson
Risk and uncertainty are characteristics of geotechnical engineering due to uncertainties and variability in material properties, external loads, analytical models, and interpretations. Recent major failures of tailings dams have resulted in changes to geotechnical design approaches to account for uncertainty. The presentation will present a brief overview of how geotechnical design approaches are evolving from prescriptive to risk informed and the importance and role of uncertainty is discussed. The basic concepts and advantages of a risk-informed approach are presented. A tailings dam example is presented to illustrate how a risk-informed approach can be applied for a potential static liquefaction failure mode.
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