Stability of waterfront retaining wall subjected to pseudo-static earthquake forces

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 14-15, 2007, Pages 1947-1954

  Choudhury, Deepankar ^a   Ahmad, Syed Mohd ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Design; Factor of safety; Hydrodynamic pressure; Overturning; Seismic active earth pressure; Sliding; Soil and wall friction angle; Wall inertia

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMIC PRESSURE; PSEUDO-STATIC EARTHQUAKE FORCES; SEISMIC ACTIVE EARTH PRESSURE; WATERFRONT RETAINING WALL;

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

RETAINING WALLS;

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RETAINING WALLS; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; RETAINING WALL; SAFETY; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC VELOCITY; STABILITY ANALYSIS; SUBMERGED BODY;

EID: 34447537954     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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