The role of soil in the collapse of 18 piers of Hanshin expressway in the Kobe earthquake

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 547-575

  Mylonakis, George ^a   Syngros, Costis ^b   Gazetas, George ^c   Tazoh, Takashi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Langan Engineering and Environmental Services   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d SHIMIZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bridge; Inelastic response; Numerical analysis; Pier; Piles; Soil structure interaction

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE PIERS; CONCRETE BRIDGES; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

FREE-FIELD SOIL RESPONSE; INELASTIC RESPONSE; WATERFRONT STRUCTURES;

EARTHQUAKES;

CONCRETE STRUCTURE; KOBE EARTHQUAKE 1995; PILE RESPONSE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; HYOGO; JAPAN; KINKI; KOBE;

EID: 33646189422     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: 10969845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.543     Document Type: Article

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