Full scale experimental study on vibration scattering using open and in-filled (GeoFoam) wave barriers

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 306-317

  Alzawi, Ashref ^a   Hesham El Naggar, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FINITE ELEMENT PACKAGES; FULL SCALE; GEOFOAM MATERIALS; GEOFOAMS; GROUND VIBRATION; IN-FILLED TRENCH; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; MACHINE FOUNDATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PROTECTIVE PERFORMANCE; RAYLEIGH; STEADY STATE VIBRATIONS; STEADY-STATE SURFACES; STRUCTURAL DAMAGES; TRANSMITTED WAVES; WAVE BARRIERS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SURFACE WAVES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ABAQUS;

BUILDING; DAMAGE MECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC ISOLATION; SEISMIC SOURCE; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VIBRATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 78650529132     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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