Seismic earth pressures on cantilever retaining structures

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1324-1333

  Al Atik, Linda ^a   Sitar, Nicholas ^a  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Backfills; Centrifuge models; Earth pressures; Earthquakes; Numerical models; Retaining walls; Seismic design; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BACKFILLS; CENTRIFUGE MODELS; EARTH PRESSURE; NUMERICAL MODELS; SIMULATION;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CENTRIFUGATION; CENTRIFUGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; EXPERIMENTS; NANOCANTILEVERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; SEISMIC DESIGN;

RETAINING WALLS;

BACKFILL; CENTRIFUGE; EARTH PRESSURE; EARTHQUAKE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INERTIA; NUMERICAL MODEL; RETAINING WALL; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 77956859069     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000351     Document Type: Article

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