TY - CHAP
T1 - Experimental investigation of dynamic behavior of cantilever retaining walls
AU - Kloukinas, Panos
AU - Penna, Augusto
AU - Santolo, Anna Scotto Di
AU - Bhattacharya, Subhamoy
AU - Dietz, Matt S.
AU - Dihoru, Luiza
AU - Evangelista, Aldo
AU - Simonelli, Armando L.
AU - Taylor, Colin A.
AU - Mylonakis, George
N1 - Funding Information:
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) for access to the Bristol Laboratory for Advanced Dynamics Engineering (BLADE), University of Bristol, UK under grant agreement n° 227887 [SERIES].
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The dynamic behavior of cantilever retaining walls under earthquake action is explored by means of 1-g shaking table testing, carried out on scaled models at the Bristol Laboratory for Advanced Dynamics Engineering (BLADE), University of Bristol, UK. The experimental program encompasses different combinations of retaining wall geometries, soil configurations and input ground motions. The response analysis of the systems at hand aimed at shedding light onto the salient features of the problem, such as: (1) the magnitude of the soil thrust and its point of application; (2) the relative sliding as opposed to rocking of the wall base and the corresponding failure mode; (3) the importance/interplay between soil stiffness, wall dimensions, and excitation characteristics, as affecting the above. The results of the experimental investigations were in good agreement with the theoretical models used for the analysis and are expected to be useful for the better understanding and the optimization of earthquake design of this particular type of retaining structure.
AB - The dynamic behavior of cantilever retaining walls under earthquake action is explored by means of 1-g shaking table testing, carried out on scaled models at the Bristol Laboratory for Advanced Dynamics Engineering (BLADE), University of Bristol, UK. The experimental program encompasses different combinations of retaining wall geometries, soil configurations and input ground motions. The response analysis of the systems at hand aimed at shedding light onto the salient features of the problem, such as: (1) the magnitude of the soil thrust and its point of application; (2) the relative sliding as opposed to rocking of the wall base and the corresponding failure mode; (3) the importance/interplay between soil stiffness, wall dimensions, and excitation characteristics, as affecting the above. The results of the experimental investigations were in good agreement with the theoretical models used for the analysis and are expected to be useful for the better understanding and the optimization of earthquake design of this particular type of retaining structure.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-00458-7_27
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-00458-7_27
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84938113143
SN - 9783319004570
T3 - Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering
SP - 477
EP - 493
BT - Seismic Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Structures
PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers
ER -