Full Scale Testing and Simulation of Seismic Bridge Abutment-Backfill Interaction

Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue , 2012, Pages 109-127

  Elgamal, Ahmed ^a   Wilson, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Earth Mechanics Inc   (United States)

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EID: 84883065507     PISSN: 15736059     EISSN: 18724671     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2060-2_4     Document Type: Article

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