financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51274126 and 51008167);China Scholarship Council(CSC);the Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering,Dalian University of Technology(Grant No.LP12014)
This paper focuses on the performance of the second-order polynomial-based response surfaces on the reliability of spatially variable soil slope. A single response surface constructed to approximate the slope system f...