Sliding stability and seismic design of retaining wall by pseudo-dynamic method for passive case

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 497-505

  Nimbalkar, Sanjay ^a   Choudhury, Deepankar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Design parameters; Earthquake; Retaining wall; Sliding; Soil wall interaction; Time dependence

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; SLOPE STABILITY; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

BACKFILL MATERIAL; PSEUDO-DYNAMIC METHOD; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY;

RETAINING WALLS;

RETAINING WALL; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SLIDING; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 33846805573     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2006.11.006     Document Type: Article

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