Forced vibration of full-scale wall-backfill system

Journal of Geotechnical Engineering

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 849-858

  Elgamal, Ahmed W ^a,d   Alampalli, Sreenivas ^b,d   Van Laak, Paul ^c,d  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TR and DB   (United States)

^c PVL Technologies Inc   (United States)

^d ASCE ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKFILL; CANTILEVER WALL; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; VIBRATION TEST;

EID: 0030391375     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(asce)0733-9410(1996)122:10(849)     Document Type: Article

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