Seismic response of displacing and non-displacing retaining systems: new insights

Abstract

This Thesis aims to clarify the Soil Retaining Wall Interaction (Chapter 1) by numerically and analytically examining the seismic response of: (a) Four different types of retaining walls, initially introduced in the centrifuge experiments of Sitar and co-workers; and (b) Three simple gravity wall formats of 12 m and 6 m height, which retain horizontal backfill sand soil. The numerical analyses performed here utilize the Simplified Constitutive (Si Co) plastic model of Anastasopoulos et al. (2011), as described in Chapter 2. The dynamic performance of this soil model is verified numerically against the centrifuge experimental results of Mikola & Sitar (2013) and Wagner & Sitar (2016a), as depicted in the same chapter. An extensive numerical parametric study on gravity walls subjected to seismic excitation is presented, exploring the role of parameters such as: the peak acceleration of the Gabor motion [PGA = 0.2 g, 0.4 g, 0.6 g] in Chapter 4,the period of the Gabor motion [TP = 0.25 s, ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/58492
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/58492
ND
58492
Alternative title
Σεισμική απόκριση συστημάτων αντιστηρίξεως μέ και χωρίς μετακίνηση: εμβάθυνση
Author
Tsantilas, Louizos (Father's name: Anastasios)
Date
2024
Degree Grantor
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Committee members
Γκαζέτας Γεώργιος
Καββαδάς Μιχαήλ
Γερόλυμος Νικόλαος
Αναστασόπουλος Ιωάννης
Τσόπελας Παναγιώτης
Σέξτος Αναστάσιος
Βαμβάτσικος Δημήτριος
Discipline
Engineering and TechnologyCivil Engineering ➨ Civil Engineering
Keywords
Geotechnical earthquake engineering; Retaining walls; Soil-structure interaction; RUIGA method; Mononobe-Okabe method; coRe method; Finite element method; Numerical analysis; Seismic pressures; HorACE
Country
Greece
Language
English
Description
tbls., fig., ch.
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