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Insight into seismic earth and water pressures against caisson quay walls
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Motivated by the need to explain the large displacement and rotation that numerous caisson- type quay walls suffered in the port of Kobe during the devastating 1995 earthquake, a detailed numerical analysis is presented for the response of such a wall from Rokko Island

Rankine solution for seismic earth pressures on L-shaped retaining walls
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ABSTRACT An exact limit-stress solution is presented for the problem of seismic earth pressures on L-shaped cantilever walls retaining dry cohesionless soil. It is shown that the problem can be analyzed by means of a Rankine stress field in the backfill for an infinite

Seismic Earth Pressures on Retaining Structures and Basement Walls in Cohesionless Soils
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Seismic Earth Pressures under Restrained Condition
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May 27- 29, 2011 Los Angeles, CA USA Seismic Earth Pressures under Restrained Condition Fred Yi, PhD, PEICTPA 24th Annual ConferenceNACGEA International Symposium on Geo-Trans Seismic Earth Pressures of Rigid WallsRigid base, Restrained Rigid Wall

Evaluation of seismic earth pressures at the passive side
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ABSTRACT: Estimation of seismic earth pressures constitutes an important subject of research in civil engineering. Previous studies showed strong dependence of earth pressure coefficient on lateral strain constraint of the backfill, ie, the wall displacement has a

Experimental results on earth pressures on rigid wall under seismic condition
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SUMMARY This paper contains the experimental results of a series of shaking table tests of a model of gravity retaining wall, with the purpose to investigate the distribution of dynamic earth pressure in dry cohesionless backfill and the effects of the soil-wall friction on the

Seismic earth pressures on retaining structures in cohesionless soils
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16. ABSTRACT Observations of the performance of basement walls and retaining structures in recent earthquakes show that failures of basement or deep excavation walls in earthquakes are rare even if the structures were not designed for the actual intensity of the

Centrifuge Modeling of Seismic Soil-Structure-Interaction and Lateral Earth Pressures for Large Near-Surface Underground Structures
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ABSTRACT: The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is planning the construction of a new buried reservoir in Southern California. The current state of practice for evaluating the seismic response of underground structures relies heavily on simplified

Distribution of seismic earth pressures on gravity walls by wave-based stress limit analysis
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ABSTRACT: A closed-form stress plasticity solution is presented for earthquake-induced earth pressures and distribution of these pressures on inflexible retaining walls. The solution is essentially an approximate yield line approach that overand under-estimates active and

Estimation of seismic earth pressures against rigid retaining structures with rotation mode
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Abstract: The evaluation of seismic earth pressures is of vital importance for the earthquake resistant design of various retaining walls and infrastructures. It is one of the key research subjects in soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering. In engineering practices, the

Seismic earth pressures measured during a shake table experiment of underground structures
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I would like to express the deepest appreciation to the committee chair, Dr. Anne Lemnitzer, who has been the encouragement and motivation for me to get into this great study subject. She has always conveyed a friendly research environment with prompt reponses and

Sensing of Lateral Seismic Earth Pressures in Geotechnical Centrifuge Models Paper Title Line 2
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SUMMARY: A reliable measurement of dynamic earth pressures is critical in the physical modelling of structures embedded in soil. Tekscan tactile pressure sensors are flexible, thin sheets containing a matrix of sensels, each capable of measuring pressure. This flexible

Experimental and Numerical Modeling of Seismic Earth Pressures on Retaining Walls with Cohesive Backfills
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Seismic Earth Pressures on Reinforced Soil Retaining Structures
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ABSTRACT: Various methods are available to estimate seismic earth pressures conventional retaining structures. Some of those methods are used to estimate the dynamic earth pressures for the design of reinforced soil retaining structures. In this paper, the

SEISMIC EARTH PRESSURES ON AN UNDERGROUND RESTRAINED STRUCTURE
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ABSTRACT An ongoing Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) project requires appropriate seismic earth pressure for designing a buried concrete reservoir. Centrifuge model tests on rectangular structures buried in unsaturated soils are being

SEISMIC EARTH PRESSURES ON INVERTED T-SHAPE RETAINING STRUCTURES VIA DYNAMIC CENTRIFUGE TESTING
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ABSTRACT A series of dynamic centrifuge tests were conducted to determine the dynamic response of an inverted T-shape cantilever retaining models subjected to earthquake motions. This paper demonstrates the discrepancy between hypothesis of Mononobe-

nalysis of seismic earth pressures: some recent developments
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ABSTRACT An exact limit-stress solution is presented for the problem of seismic earth pressures on L-shaped cantilever walls retaining dry cohesionless soil. It is shown that the problem can be analyzed by means of a Rankine stress field in the backfill for an infinite

SEISMIC EARTH PRESSURES ON RETAINING STRUCTURES AND BASEMENT WALLS
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ABSTRACT Observations of the performance of basement walls and retaining structures in recent earthquakes show that failures of basement or deep excavation walls in earthquakes are rare even if the structures were not designed for the actual magnitude of the

DISTRIBUTION OF SEISMIC EARTH PRESSURES ON RIGID RETAINING Walls
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Abstract. The distribution of seismic earth pressures on rigid retaining walls is an important task in design. On the basis of the limit equilibrium approach and limit state analysis, this paper presents a solution to compute the seismic earth pressure on the back of a retaining

SEISMIC BEARING CAPACITY AND EARTH PRESSURES BY STRESS LIMIT ANALYSIS
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Department of Civil Engineering University of Patras 26500 Patras, Greece e-mail: 1pkloukin@ upatras. gr, 2celezoglou@ upatras. gr, 3mylo@ upatras. gr, 4cip@ upatras. gr

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