Modelling of pile wave barriers by effective trenches and their screening effectiveness

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-10

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Effective trench; Frequency domain; Row of piles; Screening effectiveness; Vibration isolation; Wave barriers; Wave diffraction

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DIFFRACTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PILE FOUNDATIONS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); VISCOELASTICITY;

PILE WAVE BARRIERS; VIBRATION ISOLATION;

SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; PILE RESPONSE; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; VIBRATION; WAVE ACTION;

EID: 0033066619     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(98)00032-3     Document Type: Article

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