Numerical analysis of embankment foundation liquefaction countermeasures

Journal of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 447-471

  Elgamal, Ahmed ^a   Parra, Ender ^b   Yang, Zhaohui ^a   Adalier, Korhan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b PDVSA INTEVEP   (Venezuela)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrifuge; Countermeasures; Coupled formulation; Dilation; Embankment; Lateral spreading; Liquefaction; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; DENSIFICATION; EMBANKMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIQUEFACTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLASTICITY; STRAIN; STRESSES;

LIQUEFIABLE FOUNDATIONS;

SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

EID: 0036818386     PISSN: 13632469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1363246902000802     Document Type: Article

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