Seismic retrofit of gravity retaining walls for residential fills using ground anchors

Geotechnical and Geological Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 679-691

  Trandafir, Aurelian Catalin ^a   Kamai, Toshitaka ^b   Sidle, Roy Carl ^b   Popescu, Mihail ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchored gravity retaining walls; Earthquakes; Residential fills; Seismic displacements

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; RETROFITTING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SLOPE STABILITY; SOILS;

DYNAMIC DISPLACEMENT ANALYSIS; GRAVITY RETAINING WALL;

RETAINING WALLS;

ACCELERATION; BACKFILL; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GROUND MOTION; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; RETAINING WALL; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC RETROFIT;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NIIGATA;

ANAS;

EID: 36648999342     PISSN: 09603182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10706-007-9140-9     Document Type: Article

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