Amplitude reduction of elastic waves by a row of piles in poroelastic soil

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 463-473

  Cai, Yuan Qiang ^a,b   Ding, Guang Ya ^a   Xu, Chang Jie ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Elastic waves; Poroelastic soil; Row of elastic piles; Scattering; Screening effectiveness

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; ELASTIC WAVES; ELASTICITY; PILE FOUNDATIONS; PILES; SCATTERING; WAVES;

BIOT'S THEORIES; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSIONS; CONTINUITY CONDITIONS; FOURIER-BESSEL SERIES EXPANSIONS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; PILE-SOIL INTERFACES; POROELASTIC SOIL; ROW OF ELASTIC PILES; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SCREENING EFFECTIVENESS; SCREENING PERFORMANCE; SOIL BEHAVIORS; SOIL PERMEABILITIES; TRANSLATIONAL ADDITION THEOREMS;

SOILS;

ELASTIC WAVE; PERMEABILITY; PILE; POROELASTICITY; RIGIDITY; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 60549113895     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2008.08.015     Document Type: Article

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