An efficient and practical reliability evaluation method is proposed for a caisson-type quay wall in this paper. It is capable of evaluating reliability of real complicated coastal structures considering uncertainties in various sources of design para...
An efficient and practical reliability evaluation method is proposed for a caisson-type quay wall in this paper. It is capable of evaluating reliability of real complicated coastal structures considering uncertainties in various sources of design parameters, such as wave and current loads, resistance-related design variables including Young's modulus and compressive strength of a reinforced concrete, soil parameters, and boundary conditions. It is developed by intelligently integrating the Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) method and the finite element method (FEM). The LHS is used to significantly reduce the computational effort by limiting the number of simulation cycles required for the reliability evaluation. The applicability and efficiency of the proposed method were verified using a caisson-type quay wall. in the numerical example