Vibration isolation by a row of piles using a 3-D frequency domain BEM

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 713-728

  Kattis, S E ^a   Polyzos, D ^a   Beskos, D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Pile wave barrier; Screening wave effectiveness; Vibration isolation; Wave diffraction

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VIBRATION CONTROL; VISCOELASTICITY;

VIBRATION ISOLATION;

PILES;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DAMPING; PILE RESPONSE; VIBRATION;

EID: 0032736017     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19991020)46:5<713::AID-NME693>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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