Probabilistic analysis and reliability assessment for acceptance rate of foundation pile testing

 With the aim to overcome some shortcomings in current specifications and codes concerning foundation pile testing,a reliability approach is proposed to evaluate the quality of pile foundations by taking the acceptance rate of foundation piles as a quality index.The prior distribution of this acceptance rate is assumed to follow a Beta distribution and the probability density function of the corresponding posterior distribution,which also follows a Beta distribution,and the acceptance rate is derived by empl...