... g 05 08 2022 19 01 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2023 lateral spreading liquefaction pile–superstructure–quay wall rigid drainage pile group seismic engineering shaking table tests Liquefaction due to earthquakes causes substantial...

... 2022 material properties rock–concrete interface rock mechanics seismic engineering seismic responses tunnels & tunnelling underground tunnels Many underground engineering projects are either under construction or about to be built in areas of China at high seismic risk. Although...

... & reservoirs geotechnical engineering mining & environmental issues seismic engineering tailings Non-linear dynamic effective stress analysis of a centreline tailings dam located in the South American Andes is presented. The dam is located in a region of high-seismicity, known as the Pacific...

... measured from the hammer strike by approximately 65% and 80% for soft clay and stiff clay, respectively. 22 04 2021 22 04 2021 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2021 computational mechanics geotechnical engineering seismic engineering Coseismic landslides...

... 0.497 0.462 0.423 e_sk 0.718 0.883 1.071 1.313 1.647 17 11 2019 24 06 2020 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 dynamics geotechnical engineering seismic engineering Table 3. Basic properties of low-plasticity soil with PI = 10...

... & tunnelling seismic engineering It is worth mentioning that study of the seismic response of mountain tunnels is much less widely reported in the literature. Seismic investigations on tunnels in the discrete-element framework are even fewer. Furthermore, seismic fragility curves for mountain tunnels...

... rights reserved 2019 dynamics geotechnical engineering seismic engineering Knowing the dynamic characteristics of soil is essential to predict the response of a site subjected to dynamic loading from, for example, earthquakes or traffic (Costa et al., 2010 ; Hashash and Park...

... geotechnical engineering models (physical) seismic engineering Most new editions of seismic manuals and codes strongly recommend avoidance of construction on liquefiable sites. Building construction is only possible if the site can be sufficiently improved within a certain radius and to the depth...

... seismic engineering Uniformly graded Firouzkooh sand (#161) (SP) with a mean grain size of 0·25 mm was used for all the tests in this research. To obtain a silty sand mixture, non-plastic silt derived from the fine-grained portion of Firouzkooh silty sand (liquid limit of 17% and plasticity index...

... codes of practice & standards geotechnical engineering seismic engineering Seismic hazard appears to be remote in Hong Kong. However, the associated risk is not negligible, especially as nowadays the city is densely populated and occupied by a matrix of high-rise buildings, major...

... R_θ is the rotational stiffness of the base. 29 10 2017 11 06 2018 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2018 design methods & aids retaining walls seismic engineering It is usual to simplify the complex problem of the interaction of earthquake-generated elastic...

... bearing strength). This finding calls for a re-evaluation of methods of considering the earthquake response of gravity retaining systems. 27 12 2017 28 06 2018 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2018 retaining walls seismic engineering shallow foundations Economical...

... anchors & anchorages seismic engineering shallow foundations Many structural foundations, such as transmission towers, dry docks and pipelines under water, and so on, must be designed to safely withstand the large external uplift forces acting on them. In this regard, different shapes...

... seismic engineering shallow foundations In an earthquake event, shallow foundations should be able to transfer the dynamic lateral and overturning loads from the superstructure into the ground and resist the loads resulting from the deformation of soils adjacent to the foundation, in addition...

.... 20 11 2017 12 03 2018 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2019 dynamics foundations seismic engineering The rise of performance-based seismic design, the explicit demonstration of displacement-based performance beyond the force-based, ‘no-collapse’ philosophies...

.... buildings, structures & design seismic engineering shallow foundations A performance-based design methodology requires designers to control the level of deformations in the structure for an adopted combination of seismic loads based on an expected level of hazard. To rationally estimate...

... α_m is the inclination angle of the assumed wedge surface with the horizontal (as shown in Figure 1(b)). From Figure 1(b) , it is understood that 30 10 2017 09 03 2018 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2018 cofferdams & caissons foundations seismic engineering...

... is such that in no way can the conditions of the far field pertain, and superposition of displacement fields will underestimate the interaction effect. 11 4 2014 09 4 2013 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2015 dynamics retaining walls seismic engineering B width...

... acceleration that varies along the face of the wall. 21 1 2011 26 7 2010 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2012 geotechnical engineering retaining walls seismic engineering a_hb, a_vb horizontal and vertical acceleration...

... γ c b a vw 2 π g m 4 where 07 4 2009 03 12 2008 © 2009 Thomas Telford Ltd 2009 coastal engineering retaining walls seismic engineering As per Westergaard, 18 the seismic shaking of the water would be setting the water under...