Seismic response of bridge abutments on surface foundation subjected to collision forces

ECCOMAS Thematic Conference - COMPDYN 2013: 4th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Proceedings - An IACM Special Interest Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 860-878

  Argyroudis, Sotiris A ^a   Mitoulis, Stergios A ^b   Pitilakis, Kyriazis D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abutment; Abutment failure modes; Bridge; Collision force; Embankment; Modeling; Plaxis; SAP 2000

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; CIVIL ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EARTHQUAKES; EMBANKMENTS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; MODELS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

COLLISION FORCES; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; GEOTECHNICAL DESIGNS; PERMANENT MOVEMENT; PLAXIS; ROTATIONAL DEFORMATION; SAP 2000; SURFACE FOUNDATION;

ABUTMENTS (BRIDGE);

EID: 84898978689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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