时间：2024年10月21日上午9:00-11:55

地点：同济大学瑞安楼一楼多功能厅

腾讯会议：517889589

主讲人：Jianye Ching

主持人：张东明教授

报告简介：In geotechnical design practice, full-scale load tests (e.g., footing, driven pile, drilled shaft, etc.) can help reduce site-specific uncertainties, which may result in a more rational and economical design. Through transfer learning from a load test database, further uncertainty reduction may be achieved by utilizing non-site-specific experiences learned from the database. This transfer learning may be done via the hierarchical Bayesian model (HBM) originally proposed by the lecturer (Ching et al. 2021). However, the original HBM was developed for transfer learning from a soil-property database, not from a load-test database. A load-test database usually contains sites with extremely scarce records (e.g., 1 to 2 load test records in each site). This poses a great challenge to the adoption of the original HBM. This lecture illustrates the challenge through case studies. Moreover, this lecture further proposes a revised version of the HBM to address the challenge. The effectiveness of the revised HBM will be also demonstrated using case studies.

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主讲人：Jianye Ching

Dr. Ching is Distinguished Professor in the Dept. of Civil Engineering at National Taiwan University. He obtained his PhD degree in 2002 in University of California at Berkeley. His main research interests are geotechnical risk & reliability, random fields & spatial variability, probabilistic site characterization & geotechnical data analytics. He is the immediate past Chair of TC304 (risk) in ISSMGE and the immediate past Chair of Geotechnical Safety Network (GEOSNet). He is Managing Editor of Georisk, Associate Editors of ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Canadian Geotechnical Journal & ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems as well as Editorial Board Member of Structural Safety. He has published more than 150 papers in international journals. Dr. Ching is the recipient of the Outstanding Research Award (2011, 2014), the Wu-Da-Yu Award (2009) from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan, and the Outstanding Professor Award (2024) from the Chinese Institute of Engineers. He was elected as the 7th ISSMGE Suzanne Lacasse Lecturer in 2022.