Seismic earth pressures on rigid and flexible retaining walls

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 7-10, 2005, Pages 795-809

  Psarropoulos, P N ^a   Klonaris, G ^b   Gazetas, G ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b MUESER RUTLEDGE CONSULTING ENGINEERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic earth pressures; Finite element analysis; Layered soil; Mononobe Okabe; Retaining walls

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOUNDATIONS; RETAINING WALLS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

DYNAMIC EARTH PRESSURES; LAYERED SOIL; MONONOBE-OKABE METHOD;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PRESSURE EFFECT; RETAINING WALL;

EID: 24344460540     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2004.11.020     Document Type: Article

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