An efficient and practical reliability analysis method is required for the development of reliability-based design (RBD) guidelines of coastal structures. Such a novel method is presented in this paper. It is capable of evaluating reliability of real complicated coastal structures considering uncertainties in various sources of design parameters. It is developed by intelligently integrating the Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) method and the finite element method (FEM). The applicability and efficiency of the proposed method are verified using a caisson-type quay wall. in the numerical example.

• 허정원(전남대학교 해양토목공학과 교수, 공학박사) | Huh, Jungwon
• 정홍우(전남대학교 해양토목공학과 석사후연구원) | Jung, Hong-Woo
• 안성욱(포스코건설 토목기술그룹 차장, 공학석사) | Ahn, Sung-Wook