Facing contribution to seismic response of reduced-scale reinforced soil walls

Geosynthetics International

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 215-238

  El Emam, M M ^a,c   Bathurst, R J ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c Zagazig University ^*  (Egypt)

Author keywords

1 g model; Earthquake; Geosynthetics; Reinforced soil; Retaining wall; Seismic; Shaking table

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; SOILS; STIFFNESS;

DYNAMIC EARTHQUAKE LOADING; MODEL WALLS; SIMULATED SEISMIC LOADING; SOIL WALLS;

RETAINING WALLS;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; SHAKING TABLE TEST; SOIL REINFORCEMENT;

EID: 31744434282     PISSN: 10726349     EISSN: 10726349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/gein.2005.12.5.215     Document Type: Article

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