Seismic rotational displacement of gravity walls by pseudo-dynamic method: Passive case

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 242-249

  Choudhury, Deepankar ^a   Nimbalkar, Sanjay ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Design parameters; Dynamics; Earthquakes; Retaining wall; Soil wall interaction; Time dependence

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; EARTHQUAKES; RETAINING WALLS; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

GROUND MOTION; PSEUDO-DYNAMIC METHOD; SEISMIC LOADING; SEISMIC ROTATIONAL DISPLACEMENT;

SEISMOLOGY;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; GROUND MOTION; RETAINING WALL; RIGIDITY; SEISMIC DESIGN; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 33750520185     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2006.06.009     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Wu G., and Finn W.D. Seismic lateral pressures for design of rigid walls. Can Geotechn J 36 (1999) 509-522
2. Caltabiano S., Cascone E., and Maugeri M. Seismic stability of retaining walls with surcharge. Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 20 (2000) 469-476
3. Psarropoulos P.N., Klonaris G., and Gazetas G. Seismic earth pressures on rigid and flexible retaining walls. Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 25 (2005) 795-809
4. Steedman R.S. Seismic design of retaining walls. Proc Inst Civil Eng, Geotechn Eng 131 (1998) 12-22
5. Newmark N. Effects of earthquakes on dams and embankments. Geotechnique 15 2 (1965) 139-160
6. Franklin AG, Chang FK. Permanent displacements of earth embankments by Newmark sliding block analysis. Report 5, Miscellaneous Paper s-71-17, US Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station. Vicksburg, Mississippi; 1977.
7. Richards Jr. R., and Elms D.G. Seismic behavior of gravity retaining walls. J Geotechn Eng ASCE 105 4 (1979) 449-469
8. Siddharthan R., Ara S., and Norris G.M. Simple rigid plastic model for seismic tilting of rigid wall. J Struct Eng ASCE 118 2 (1992) 469-487
9. Richards Jr. R., Fishman K.L., and Divito R.C. Threshold acceleration for rotation and sliding of bridge abutments. J Geotechn Eng ASCE 112 9 (1996) 752-759
10. Zeng X., and Steedman R.S. Rotating block method for seismic displacement of gravity walls. J Geotechn Geoenviron Eng ASCE 126 8 (2000) 709-717
11. Steedman R.S., and Zeng X. The influence of phase on the calculation of pseudo-static earth pressure on a retaining wall. Geotechnique 40 1 (1990) 103-112
12. Zeng X., and Steedman R.S. On the behavior of quay walls in earthquakes. Geotechnique 43 3 (1993) 417-431
13. Choudhury D., and Nimbalkar S.S. Seismic passive resistance by pseudo-dynamic method. Geotechnique 55 9 (2005) 699-702
14. Choudhury D, Nimbalkar SS. Stability and design of a retaining wall under earthquake conditions considering wall-soil inertia: the passive case. Eng Geol 2006, under review.
15. Das B.M. Principles of soil dynamics (1993), PWS-KENT Publishing Company, Boston, MA
16. Prakash S. Soil dynamics (1981), McGraw Hill, Inc., USA
17. Ebeling RM, Morrison Jr EE. The seismic design of waterfront retaining structures. US Army Technical Report ITL-92-11 and US Navy Technical Report NCEL TR-939; 1992.