Shake table sliding response of a gravity dam model including water uplift pressure

Engineering Structures

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1625-1633

  Rochon Cyr, Mathieu ^a   Léger, Pierre ^b  

^a BPR CSO   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concrete; Cracking; Dams; Seismic sliding; Shake table tests; Water uplift pressures

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE GRAVITY DAMS; CONCRETE-CONCRETE; CRACKING; DYNAMIC FRICTION COEFFICIENT; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; FRICTIONAL INTERFACE; HIGH CONFIDENCE; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH SLIDING VELOCITIES; INITIATION OF MOTION; LOW FREQUENCY; ORIGINAL DESIGN; PRESSURIZED CONDITIONS; RESIDUAL DISPLACEMENT; SEISMIC SLIDING; SHAKE TABLE; SHAKE TABLE TESTS; SHEAR TESTS; SINUSOIDAL PULSE; SLIDING DISPLACEMENTS; SLIDING INTERFACES; SLIDING MOTIONS; SLIDING RESPONSE; SLIDING TEST; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; STATIC FRICTION COEFFICIENT; STICK-SLIP; STRONG GROUND MOTION; THIN WATER FILMS; VERTICAL FORCE; WET AND DRY;

CRACKS; DYNAMIC LOADS; GRAVITY DAMS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP FORMING; STICTION; TAPE DRIVES; TESTING; TRIBOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPLIFT PRESSURE;

CONCRETES;

CRACKING; DAM; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC DESIGN; SHAKING TABLE TEST; SLIDING; STICK-SLIP; STRONG MOTION;

EID: 67349118425     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2009.03.001     Document Type: Review

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