Bridge-abutment-backfill dynamic interaction modeling based on full scale tests

9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2010, Including Papers from the 4th International Tsunami Symposium

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1736-1745

  Wilson, P ^a   Elgamal, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUTMENT WALLS; DENSE SANDS; DYNAMIC INTERACTION; FINITE ELEMENT; FORCE-DISPLACEMENT; FORCE-DISPLACEMENT RELATIONSHIPS; FULL SCALE TESTS; INERTIAL EFFECT; LONGITUDINAL DYNAMICS; PASSIVE EARTH PRESSURE; PASSIVE PRESSURE; PASSIVE RESISTANCE; SEISMIC EXCITATIONS; SHAKE TABLE;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TSUNAMIS;

ABUTMENTS (BRIDGE);

EID: 84867179690     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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