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Excavation in Hard Clays of the Keuper Formation
For the construction of a lock on the Main-Danube-Canal in South Germany a 30 m deep cut had to be excavated in the overconsolidated clays and claystones of the Keuper formation. The strength...

Large Mat Foundation Analysis on Expansive Soil
This paper describes a comparison of predicted and observed performance of mat foundations on stiff expansive soil. Foundation performance was predicted using a new computer program BOSEF...

Preliminary Seismic Risk Maps for Puget Sound
Ground shaking during Puget Sound earthquakes is characterized by irregularly shaped areas of high intensity ground motion, not all of which are correlated with soil type. Simulation of...

Seismic Risk Analysis of LNG Storage Tanks
This paper presents an approach to the seismic safety review of existing LNG storage tanks. The approach considers the seismic hazards from ground motion, surface fault rupture, and soil...

A Case Study of the Behavior of Seaport Facilities During the 1978 Miyagi-Ken-Oki Earthquake
This paper assesses seismic response characteristics of seaport facilities during the 1978 Miyagi-Ken-Oki earthquake by (a) compiling and assessing documented information from post-earthquake...

Attaching Steel Members to Reinforced Concrete Elements
A variety of structural systems have been devised to strengthen existing buildings for improved seismic resistance. Strengthening methods currently in use for reinforced concrete structures...

An Expert System for Inactive Hazardous Waste Site Characterization
The area of hazardous waste management is a broad and multidisciplinary field requiring expertise in engineering, geology, chemistry and toxicology, and is an ideal area for the application...

New Techniques in Forced Vibration Testing
Forced vibration testing is a well established technique as indicated by references 1 to 8. This paper describes a system for forced vibration testing developed over two years during work...

Design and Planned Use of a 2-Kiloton Eccentric Mass Vibrator
High-level testing of large civil structures is usually not practical, due to structural damage considerations and available testing equipment. However, in the case of a joint American/German...

Frequency Domain Analysis of a Tank-Soil System
The dynamic response of an elastic cylindrical tank supported on a rigid base under a harmonic vertical excitation is analyzed taking into consideration its interaction with the foundation...

Cleaning Up Toxics
Case histories show how several different types of contamination cleanup were handled. In Attleboro, Mass., washwater, used to decontaminate equipment and tools after cyanide was removed...

Attapulgite: A Clay Liner Solution?
Poor performance of clay liners at waste management facilities has resulted in the EPA mandate of synthetic polymeric liner materials to comply with zero penetration requirements. Laboratory...

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...

Evaluation of Building Response Recorded During the Morgan Hill Earthquake
On April 24, 1984, the Morgan Hill Earthquake (Richter magnitude 6. 2) occurred within approximately 15 km of IBM Corporation's computer-equipment manufacturing facility located...

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)...

Pseudo-Dynamic Testing of Structural Components
The pseudo-dynamic testing procedure is a simultaneous simulation and control process in which inertia and damping properties are simulated and flexibility properties are acquired from...

Seismic Tests of Friction Damped Steel Frames
This paper presents the results obtained from qualification tests of a new friction damping system, which has been proposed in order to improve the response of Moment Resisting Frames...

Nonlinear Behavior of Precast Concrete Shear Walls under Simulated Earthquake Loading
This paper presents experimental and analytical results on precast concrete shear walls under earthquake loading. It was observed in both small scale models tested and the computer analysis...

 

 

 

 

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