Effect of abutment modeling on the seismic response of bridge structures

Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 395-402

  Aviram, Ady ^a   Mackie, Kevin R ^b   Stojadinovic, Bozidar ^a  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

backfill; bearing pads; embankment; nonlinear analysis; shear keys

Indexed keywords

ABUTMENTS (BRIDGE); BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); BUILDING MATERIALS; CONCRETE BRIDGES; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; EARTHQUAKES; EMBANKMENTS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; HYSTERESIS; MODAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; OVERPASSES; REINFORCED CONCRETE; ROLLERS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); STIFFNESS; STREAM FLOW; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ACCURATE ESTIMATIONS; ANALYSIS RESULTS; BACKFILL; BRIDGE STRUCTURES; CALIFORNIA; CONTINUUM MODELS; CRITICAL COMPONENTS; DISCRETE REPRESENTATIONS; DYNAMIC EXCITATIONS; HYSTERETIC BEHAVIORS; INELASTIC BEHAVIORS; MODE SHAPES; MODELING APPROACHES; NONLINEAR DYNAMIC TIME HISTORIES; NONLINEAR MODELS; PEAK DISPLACEMENTS; REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGES; RESISTANCE MECHANISMS; SHEAR KEYS; SHORT BRIDGES; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SOIL MATERIALS; SPRING MODELS; WALL BEHAVIORS;

BEARING PADS;

EID: 57749193683     PISSN: 16713664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11803-008-1008-3     Document Type: Article

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