Importance of Distribution Type on Bearing Capacity of an Embedded Foundation in Spatially Varying Soils

Figure 4

The mean and standard deviation (SD) of the bearing capacity for different cases of horizontal correlation length with (a, d) Lognormal distribution, (b, e) Gamma distribution, and (c, f) Beta distribution.

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