HereisabriefintroductioninEnglishfor"BayesianMethodsforCharacterizingUncertaintyinGeotechnicalEngineeringModels"byZhangJie:ThisbookexplorestheapplicationofBayesianmethodstoaddressuncertaintyingeotechnicalengineeringmodels.Itprovidesasystematicframeworkforquantifying,updating,andmanaginguncertaintiesinsoilandrockmechanics,slopestability,foundationdesign,andothergeotechnicalproblems.Byintegratingprobabilisticreasoningwithengineeringjudgment,thebookofferspracticaltoolsforimprovingreliabilityingeotechnicalpredictionsanddecision-making.Keytopicsincludepriorandposteriordistributions,MarkovChainMonteCarlo(MCMC)techniques,modelcalibration,anduncertaintypropagation.Thecontentisdesignedforresearchers,engineers,andstudentsseekingadvancedprobabilisticapproachestoenhancegeotechnicalriskassessmentanddesignoptimization.
