Journal
ENGINEERING GEOLOGY
Volume 203, Issue -, Pages 151-167Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2015.10.015
Keywords
Site investigation; Spatial variability; Statistical uncertainty; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Bayesian methods
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This paper applies the transitional Markov chain Monte Carlo (TMCMC) algorithm to probabilistic site characterization problems. The purpose is to characterize the statistical uncertainties in the spatial variability parameters based on the cone penetration test (CPT) dataset. The spatial variability parameters of interest include the trend function, standard deviation and scale of fluctuation for the spatial variability, and so on. In contrast to the Metropolis-Hastings (MH) algorithm, the TMCMC algorithm is a tune-free algorithm: it does not require the specification of the proposal probability density function (PDF), hence there is no need to tune the proposal PDF. Also, there is no burn-in period to worry about, and the convergence issue is mild for TMCMC because the samples spread widely. Moreover, it can estimate the model evidence, a quantity essential for Bayesian model comparison, without extra computation cost. The effectiveness for the TMCMC algorithm is demonstrated through simulated examples and a real case study. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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