Location
San Diego, California
Presentation Date
29 Mar 2001, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Abstract
After the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, ground fissures were found to have radiated from the footing of a bridge pier. Simple experimental and numerical studies were carried out to investigate the cause of these fissures. This paper clarified that the ground fissures appeared not as a result of the force due to the lateral spreading of the liquefied soil acting to the back of the footing of the bridge pier, but due to the movement of the ground behind the riverbank toward the river caused by the collapse of the riverbank.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2001 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Tazoh, Takashi; Sato, Maysayoshi; and Mano, Hideyuki, "The Cause of Ground Fissures Radiating From the Footing of a Bridge Pie Generated by the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake" (2001). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 38.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/04icrageesd/session04/38
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The Cause of Ground Fissures Radiating From the Footing of a Bridge Pie Generated by the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake
San Diego, California
After the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, ground fissures were found to have radiated from the footing of a bridge pier. Simple experimental and numerical studies were carried out to investigate the cause of these fissures. This paper clarified that the ground fissures appeared not as a result of the force due to the lateral spreading of the liquefied soil acting to the back of the footing of the bridge pier, but due to the movement of the ground behind the riverbank toward the river caused by the collapse of the riverbank.
