A study of piles during earthquakes: Issues of design and analysis

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 141-234

  Finn, W D Liam ^a,b  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case histories of pile failures; Centrifuge testing of piles; Dynamic effective stress analysis; Pile cap stiffnesses; Piles in liquefiable soils; Pseudo static analysis of pile groups; Seismic response of pile groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444401035     PISSN: 1570761X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-005-1241-3     Document Type: Article

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