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Sequential Earthquake Response of an Earth Dam
Sequential earthquake-response records of the well-instrumented Long Valley earth dam (Mammoth Lake area in California) are analyzed and engineering interpretations are made. The dam,...

Importance of Phasing of Strong Ground Motion in the Estimation of Structural Response
In this paper, the influence on Fourier phase spectrum of seismic source directivity due to rupture propagation along the earthquake source is investigated. The phasing is described using...

Dynamics of Fender and Rack Systems for Docking Ferries
A dynamic analysis of a ferry fender and rack system is developed based on the conservation of energy principle and Newton's laws of motion. The dynamics of the interaction...

Dynamic Testing of Structures Using the RESCUE Technique
This paper describes the most recent phase of an NSF supported program at SRI International to develop the technique of repeatable earth shaking by controlled underground expansion (RESCUE)...

Precast Roofs for Blast Shelters
A shallow-buried reinforced concrete blast shelter has been constructed and dynamically tested at the U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES). Three thicknesses of precast...

Vibration Tests of Reservoir Structures Outlet Tower and Footbridge
This paper presents a field test procedure used in determining the dynamic properties of an outlet tower and footbridge for a major reservoir. Such factors as virtual water mass, soil-structure...

Dynamic Tests of LNG Storage Tanks for Earthquake Analysis of Liquid-Tank-Pile-Soil Interaction
This paper presents a field test procedure for determining the dynamic properties of large liquid natural gas (LNG) storage tanks under operating conditions. Two methods of vibratory excitation...

Earthquake Analysis of Liquid Storage Tanks
In the design of modern liquid storage tanks, it is of technical importance to examine their safety against earthquake damage. The methodologies used in design do not account for the major...

Seismic Restraint of Hazardous Process Piping
The lack of appropriate guidelines for the design and installation of hazardous process piping in industrial facilities has created a potentially dangerous situation. Process piping carrying...

A Discrete Model for the Estimation of the Elastic Abutment Stiffness
The purpose of this paper is the presentation of a simple method for the estimation of the abutment stiffness. In this method, the abutment is represented as a uniform rigid plate with...

Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction for RC Lifelines
The behavior of buried cylinders merits attention because of the impact of lifeline survivability under earthquake effects, and failures may adversely affect many communities that employ...

Green's Function Implementation for Pile Analysis
This paper describes the implementation of a new Green's function based on a layer stiffness approach in a boundary element analysis of harmonically loaded pile groups embedded...

Soil-Structure Interaction on Structural Dynamics
The dynamic analysis of structures under the effect of soil-structure interaction and the effect of member axial force is based on the continuous mass matrix method, in which the equations...

Approximate Solutions for Layered Foundations
A simple approximation to the dynamic response of foundations resting on layered soil profiles is presented. The approximation is based on an equivalent radiation damping which is numerically...

Soil-Structure Interaction at the Waterfront
In 1981 the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory (NCEL) undertook a review of available material models. Comparison was made between test data and model predictions. Based on this study,...

Interaction Effects in Vertically Excited Steel Tanks
Following a brief review of the hydrodynamic effects induced by a vertical component of ground shaking in liquid-filled, circular, cylindrical, steel tanks that are rigidly supported at...

Stochastic Response of Structures with Appendages Containing Fluids
Following a perturbation technique a procedure is developed to compute the modal properties of a system consisting of a fluid containing appendage attached to a multi-degree-of-freedom...

Response of Embedded Foundations: A Hybrid Approach
A hybrid approach to study the dynamic through-the-soil coupling between adjacent foundations embedded in a uniform soil model when subjected to harmonic external forces and seismic excitation...

Modeling for Finite-Element Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis
The modeling for finite-element soil-structure interaction analysis for embedded structures is evaluated in an attempt to resolve the issue related to the elevation at which design ground...

The Simulation of Soil-Concrete Interfaces with a Non-local Constitutive Model
This investigation explores a method for predicting deformation in the vicinity of interfaces of dissimilar materials such as concrete and soil. Based upon the basic features of the deformation...

 

 

 

 

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