Evaluation of behavior of a laterally loaded bridge pile group under Scour conditions

Proceedings of the 2009 Structures Congress - Don't Mess with Structural Engineers: Expanding Our Role

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 290-299

  Bennett, Caroline R ^a   Cheng, Lin ^b   Parsons, Robert ^b   Han, Jie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b University of Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Group equivalent pile; Lateral behavior; Pile group; Scour; Soil pile interaction

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE FOUNDATION; BRIDGE PILES; BRIDGE SUPERSTRUCTURE; GROUP EQUIVALENT-PILE; LATERAL BEHAVIOR; LATERAL CAPACITY; PILE DEFLECTION; PILE GROUP; PILE GROUP INTERACTION; PILE GROUPS; PILE HEAD; SCOUR DEPTH; SHEAR FORCE; SOIL-PILE INTERACTION;

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BRIDGE PIERS; EROSION; PILE FOUNDATIONS; SCOUR; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SOILS;

PILES;

EID: 69949166661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41031(341)31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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