A case study of damages of the Kandla Port and Customs Office tower supported on a mat-pile foundation in liquefied soils under the 2001 Bhuj earthquake

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 333-346

  Dash, Suresh R ^a   Govindaraju, L ^b   Bhattacharya, Subhamoy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

Lateral spreading; Liquefaction; Mat pile soil interaction; Pile foundation; Settlement

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CLAY MINERALS; CONSOLIDATION; EARTHQUAKES; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FOUNDATIONS; LIQUEFACTION; PILE FOUNDATIONS; PILES; PORTS AND HARBORS; SAND; SEISMOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SOILS; TOWERS;

CASE STUDIES; CLAY LAYERS; CLAYEY SOILS; ECCENTRIC MASSES; INDUCED SETTLEMENTS; LATERAL SPREADING; LIQUEFIABLE SOILS; LIQUEFIED SOILS; MAT-PILE-SOIL INTERACTION; PILE GROUPS; PILED FOUNDATIONS; RAFT FOUNDATIONS; SANDY SOILS; SETTLEMENT; SINGLE PILES;

SOIL LIQUEFACTION;

BENDING; BHUJ EARTHQUAKE 2001; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; GROUND SETTLEMENT; LIQUEFACTION; PILE; SANDY SOIL; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 56949108032     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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