Assessment of the seismic performance of a bituminous faced rockfill dam

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 75, Issue , 2015, Pages 183-198

  Albano, Matteo ^a,b   Modoni, Giuseppe ^b   Croce, Paolo ^b   Russo, Giacomo ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bituminous facing; Earthquake; Hazard mitigation; Limit states; Performance; Rockfill dam

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; EMBANKMENT DAMS; EMBANKMENTS; FACINGS; ROCK MECHANICS; SEISMIC WAVES;

AMPLIFICATION SPECTRA; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; CONCRETE FACED ROCKFILL DAM; HAZARD MITIGATIONS; HIGHLY SEISMIC REGIONS; LIMIT STATE; PERFORMANCE; SEISMIC PERFORMANCE;

DAMS;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE; EMBANKMENT DAM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; ROCKFILL DAM; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

ITALY;

EID: 84928658694     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2015.04.005     Document Type: Article

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