Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Presentation Date
28 Apr 1981, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Abstract
Although this problem arises frequently in design practice, there is little guidance for the designer in current literature. The proposed method entails estimating the free-field soil deformation caused by a horizontal acceleration. Dynamic increase in earth pressure against an (effectively rigid) wall is assumed to be proportional to the free-field deformation, relative to the base of the wall, with an upper limit equal to full passive pressure. Dynamic pressures calculated using this method are compared with field evidence from published records of observations made on a building in Yokohama during an earthquake.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1981 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
Taylor, P. W. and lndrawan, Z., "A Simple Method of Estimating Seismic Pressures from Cohesive Soils Against Basement Walls" (1981). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 2.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/01icrageesd/session03/2
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A Simple Method of Estimating Seismic Pressures from Cohesive Soils Against Basement Walls
St. Louis, Missouri
Although this problem arises frequently in design practice, there is little guidance for the designer in current literature. The proposed method entails estimating the free-field soil deformation caused by a horizontal acceleration. Dynamic increase in earth pressure against an (effectively rigid) wall is assumed to be proportional to the free-field deformation, relative to the base of the wall, with an upper limit equal to full passive pressure. Dynamic pressures calculated using this method are compared with field evidence from published records of observations made on a building in Yokohama during an earthquake.
