An investigation into the base sliding response of rigid concrete gravity dams to dynamic loading

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 79-98

  Mir, R A ^a   Taylor, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gravity dams; Models; Shaking table; Sliding

Indexed keywords

BASE SLIDING; DYNAMIC SLIP TEST; GRAVITY DAM; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SHAKING TABLE TEST;

ALGORITHMS; CONCRETE DAMS; DYNAMIC LOADS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAVITY DAMS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STABILITY CRITERIA; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BASE SLIDING RESPONSE; DAWNSTREAM SLIDING; DISPLACEMENTS; INDUCED SLIP; LAGRANGIAN CONTACT; NEWMARK SLIDING BLOCK; OVERTURNING CHARACTERISTICS; SHAKING TABLE; STATIC STABILITY;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 0029669338     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9845(199601)25:1<79::AID-EQE539>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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