Proceedings of the
8th International Symposium on Geotechnical Safety and Risk (ISGSR)
14 – 16 December 2022, Newcastle, Australia
Editors: Jinsong Huang, D.V. Griffiths, Shui-Hua Jiang, Anna Giacomini, Richard Kelly
doi:10.3850/978-981-18-5182-7_21-007-cd
Towards Stochastic Structural and Geotechnical Design for Solar Array Foundation Design
1SMEC, Level 6 480 St Pauls Terrace, Brisbane.
2Discipline of Civil, Surveying and Environmental Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
ABSTRACT
Use of reliability analyses to assess the probability of failure for solar farm foundations has the potential to provide significant capital cost savings to an asset owner if consequent increases in maintenance cost are manageable. Reliability analyses are described and some initial thoughts about assessing soil properties as a function of wind and rain are discussed.
Keywords: LRFD, Solar farms, foundations, correlated wind and rain.
