Seismic displacement of gravity walls by a two-body model

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 295-318

  Stamatopoulos, Constantine A ^a   Velgaki, Eleni G ^a   Modaressi, Arezou ^b   Lopez Caballero, Fernando ^b  

^a Stamatopoulos and Associates Co Ltd   (Greece)

^b Grande Voie des Vignes   (France)

Author keywords

Critical acceleration; Critical rupture angle; Gravity walls; Large displacement; Seismic displacement; Sliding block models

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SOILS;

CRITICAL ACCELERATION; CRITICAL RUPTURE ANGLE; GRAVITY WALLS; LARGE DISPLACEMENT; SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT; SLIDING-BLOCK MODELS;

SEISMOLOGY;

BACKFILL; COHESION; DISPLACEMENT; ELASTOPLASTICITY; EQUILIBRIUM; FRICTION; GEOMETRY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SHAKING TABLE TEST;

EID: 33746624845     PISSN: 1570761X     EISSN: 15731456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-006-9015-0     Document Type: Article

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