ABSTRACT

According Bea (2005) many people (mainly in the USA) have worked on the field of probabilistical geotechnical engineering (Wu 1974, Meyerhof 1976, Vanmarke 1977, Baecher 1979, Harr 1987, Wu et al 1989, Whitman 1984, 2000, Bea 1990, Ronold, Bjerager 1992, Christian et al 1994, Lacasse, Nadim 1994, Morgenstern 1995, National Academy of Engineering 1995, Kulhawy 1996, Kulhawy, Phoon 1996, Tang et al 1999, Duncan 2000, Vick 2002, Lacasse 2004, Christian 2004).