Can tilt tests provide correct insight regarding frictional behavior of sliding rock block under seismic excitation?

Engineering Geology

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 84-92

  Hsieh, Yo Ming ^a   Lee, Kuo Chen ^b   Jeng, Fu Shu ^b   Huang, Tsan Hwei ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Friction; Landslides; Seismic; Shaking table test; Tilt test

Indexed keywords

BASE EXCITATION; CONTACT STRESS; COULOMB FRICTION MODELS; DYNAMIC EXCITATIONS; DYNAMIC PROBLEM; DYNAMIC TESTS; FRICTION ANGLES; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; FRICTION PARAMETERS; FRICTIONAL BEHAVIOR; HIGH FREQUENCY; NORMAL STRESS; RELATIVE DISPLACEMENT; RELATIVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC; SEISMIC EXCITATIONS; SHAKING TABLE TESTS; SLIDING BLOCKS; SLIDING INTERFACES; SLIDING ROCK BLOCK; STATIC CONDITIONS; TILT TEST;

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; EARTHQUAKES; FRICTION; SANDSTONE; TRIBOLOGY;

TESTING;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE; FRICTION; LANDSLIDE; ROCK BLOCK; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SHAKING TABLE TEST; SLIDING; SLOPE; STATIC RESPONSE; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052378192     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2010.11.008     Document Type: Article

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