support of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange under the Bekker NAWA Programme(Grant No.BPN/BEK/2021/1/00068);which founded the postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Risk and Reliability at Leibniz University Hannover.The first author would also like to thank to Prof.Wengang Zhang and Chongzhi Wu(School of Civil Engineering,Chongqing University)for inspiring discussions initi-ated by High-end Foreign Expert Introduction program(Grant No.DL2021165001L)by the Ministry of Science and Technology(MOST),China;The second author would like to thank the support from ANID(National Agency for Research and Development,Chile)and DAAD(German Academic Exchange Service,Germany)under CONICYT-PFCHA/Doctorado Acuerdo Bilateral DAAD Becas Chile/2018-62180007.The third author gratefully acknowledges the support by ANID under its program FONDECYT(Grant No.1200087).
This study proposes a framework to evaluate the performance of borehole arrangements for the design of rectangular shallow foundation systems under spatially variable soil conditions. Performance measures are introduc...
support provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41907244);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2019M653180);the Project of the Key Laboratory of Soft Soil and Environmental Geotechnical Ministry of Education(Grant No.2019P05)is gratefully acknowledged.
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support by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 51278307
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