Alternative Title
Paper No. 4.02
Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
11 Mar 1998, 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Abstract
A simple solution technique for evaluating the response of a surface or embedded foundation under vertical vibrations in a homogeneous soil has been developed. The effects of soil nonlinearity on shear modulus and material damping, frequency on stiffness and radiation damping, and embedment of foundation on stiffness and radiation damping have been considered. A computer program has been developed based on the Elastic Half Space (EHS) analog technique (Lysmer and Richart, 1966), to compute the response amplitude of both surface and embedded footings. The computed response has been verified by comparing it with measured data from Novak (1970). The predicted response is underestimated in all cases because the (EHS) analog computed radiation damping is overestimated. A modification factor, λ, has been proposed and applied to correct the estimated radiation damping. A unique relationship between λ, (correction factor for radiation damping), and shear strain (γ) has been established for field use. A rational correction factor to radiation damping for computing vibration footing response has been proposed for the first time and this has been shown to provide computed results which compare quite well to measured results.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
4th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1998 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
Prakash, Shamsher and Tseng, Y., "Predictions of Vertically Vibrating Foundation Response With Modified Radiation Damping" (1998). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 4.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/4icchge/4icchge-session04/4
Predictions of Vertically Vibrating Foundation Response With Modified Radiation Damping
St. Louis, Missouri
A simple solution technique for evaluating the response of a surface or embedded foundation under vertical vibrations in a homogeneous soil has been developed. The effects of soil nonlinearity on shear modulus and material damping, frequency on stiffness and radiation damping, and embedment of foundation on stiffness and radiation damping have been considered. A computer program has been developed based on the Elastic Half Space (EHS) analog technique (Lysmer and Richart, 1966), to compute the response amplitude of both surface and embedded footings. The computed response has been verified by comparing it with measured data from Novak (1970). The predicted response is underestimated in all cases because the (EHS) analog computed radiation damping is overestimated. A modification factor, λ, has been proposed and applied to correct the estimated radiation damping. A unique relationship between λ, (correction factor for radiation damping), and shear strain (γ) has been established for field use. A rational correction factor to radiation damping for computing vibration footing response has been proposed for the first time and this has been shown to provide computed results which compare quite well to measured results.
