Shaking table testing of geofoam seismic buffers

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 324-332

  Bathurst, Richard J ^a   Zarnani, Saman ^b   Gaskin, Andrew ^c  

^a ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ONTARIO POWER GENERATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buffer; Expanded polystyrene (EPS); Geofoam; Retaining wall; Seismic; Shaking table

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION TESTING; DYNAMIC LOADS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RETAINING WALLS;

EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE (EPS); GEOFOAM; RIGID RETAINING WALL; SEISMIC BUFFERS; SHAKING TABLE;

SEISMOLOGY;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; LOADING; RETAINING WALL; SHAKING TABLE TEST;

EID: 33845432523     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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