Soil slopes under combined horizontal and vertical seismic accelerations

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1231-1241

  Ling, Hoe I ^a   Leshchinsky, Dov ^a   Mohri, Yoshiyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Log spiral mechanism; Permanent displacement; Pseudo static analysis; Seismic stability; Vertical acceleration; Yield acceleration

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC LOADS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

LOG SPIRAL MECHANISM; PERMANENT DISPLACEMENT; PSEUDO STATIC ANALYSIS; SEISMIC STABILITY; VERTICAL ACCELERATION; YIELD ACCELERATION;

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE;

ACCELERATION; DISPLACEMENT; FAILURE MECHANISM; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 0031407326     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9845(199712)26:12<1231::AID-EQE707>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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