Extensive overview of soil constitutive relations and applications for geotechnical engineering problems

KC Onyelowe, AM Ebid, ER Sujatha, F Fazel-Mojtahedi… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
A state-of-the-art review has been conducted in this work on soil constitutive modeling,
which has emphasized on: soil type, ground-water conditions, loading conditions, structural …

Seismic behavior of retaining walls: a critical review of analytical and field performance studies

SA Khan, M Karray, P Paultre - Geotechnics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Given the abundance and importance of earth retention structures, the problem of seismic
earth pressure has attracted not only the research community but also industry and …

Evaluation of the effect of earthquake frequency content on seismic behavior of cantilever retaining wall including soil–structure interaction

T Cakir - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2013 - Elsevier
A three-dimensional backfill–structure–soil/foundation interaction phenomenon is simulated
using the finite element method in order to analyze the dynamic behavior of cantilever …

Study on seismic stability and performance of reinforced soil walls using shaking table tests

P Xu, K Hatami, G Jiang - Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 2020 - Elsevier
The paper reports a 1 g shaking table test that was carried out on a reinforced soil wall with
an objective to study the acceleration amplification in the backfill, and phase differences …

Evaluation of 1-D seismic site response modeling of sand using centrifuge experiments

YMA Hashash, S Dashti, MI Romero… - Soil Dynamics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The response of an equivalent 26 m-thick deposit of dry, medium-dense, Nevada Sand with
a relative density of 60% is measured in the centrifuge under six 1-D, horizontal earthquake …

Seismic rotational stability of gravity retaining walls by modified pseudo-dynamic method

A Pain, D Choudhury, SK Bhattacharyya - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstracts Seismic stability analysis is an important aspect for design of safe retaining walls
in earthquake prone areas. In this study, limit equilibrium method is used for rotational …

Seismic earth pressures on retaining structures and basement walls in cohesionless soils

R Geraili Mikola, G Candia, N Sitar - Journal of Geotechnical and …, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
Observations of the performance of basement walls and retaining structures in recent
earthquakes show that failures of basement or deep-excavation walls in earthquakes are …

A method for the design of embedded cantilever retaining walls under static and seismic loading

E Conte, A Troncone, M Vena - Géotechnique, 2017 - icevirtuallibrary.com
A simple-to-use method is proposed for the design of embedded cantilever retaining walls in
cohesionless soils under static and seismic conditions. Taking into account the …

Use of EPS geofoam compressible inclusions for reducing the earthquake effects on yielding earth retaining structures

A Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, K Lamote… - Soil Dynamics and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The effectiveness of EPS geofoam compressible inclusions in reducing both the seismic
earth pressure and displacement increment (ie, horizontal translation and rotation) of …

Kinematic framework for evaluating seismic earth pressures on retaining walls

SJ Brandenberg, G Mylonakis… - Journal of Geotechnical …, 2015 - ascelibrary.org
During earthquake ground shaking earth pressures on retaining structures can cyclically
increase and decrease as a result of inertial forces applied to the walls and kinematic …