Design of waterfront retaining wall for the passive case under earthquake and tsunami

Applied Ocean Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 37-44

  Choudhury, Deepankar ^a   Ahmad, Syed Mohd ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Factor of safety; Hydrodynamic pressure; Overturning; Seismic passive earth pressure; Sliding; Wall inertia

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); HYDRODYNAMICS; PRESSURE; TSUNAMIS;

FACTOR OF SAFETY; OVERTURNING; SEISMIC PASSIVE EARTH PRESSURE; WALL INERTIA;

RETAINING WALLS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); HYDRODYNAMICS; PRESSURE; RETAINING WALLS; TSUNAMIS;

BACKFILL; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCE; OVERTURN; PRESSURE EFFECT; RETAINING WALL; SAFETY; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SLIDING; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TSUNAMI;

EID: 34748867130     PISSN: 01411187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apor.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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