Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Presentation Date
10 Mar 1991, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Abstract
The October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake subjected a number of solid waste or sanitary landfills to significant shaking. The performance of sanitary landfills during large earthquakes is of great interest to the public, state and federal agencies, and the landfill owners. The observed performance of six sanitary landfills located within the Lorna Prieta earthquake damage zone is compared with the performance predicted by a commonly used deformation analysis technique. The six landfills were inspected immediately after the October 17, 1989, magnitude 7.1 earthquake. Damage and evidence of slope movement, or lack thereof, was recorded. The mean peak ground accelerations were estimated and used in a deformation analysis as proposed by Makdisi and Seed (1977). The deformations predicted by the analyses are compared with the observed conditions and from the results of the comparison; a preliminary assessment of the analytical techniques and input parameters is made.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1991 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
Buranek, Dennis and Prasad, Sangeeta, "Sanitary Landfill Performance During the Loma Prieta Earthquake" (1991). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 12.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/02icrageesd/session13/12
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Sanitary Landfill Performance During the Loma Prieta Earthquake
St. Louis, Missouri
The October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake subjected a number of solid waste or sanitary landfills to significant shaking. The performance of sanitary landfills during large earthquakes is of great interest to the public, state and federal agencies, and the landfill owners. The observed performance of six sanitary landfills located within the Lorna Prieta earthquake damage zone is compared with the performance predicted by a commonly used deformation analysis technique. The six landfills were inspected immediately after the October 17, 1989, magnitude 7.1 earthquake. Damage and evidence of slope movement, or lack thereof, was recorded. The mean peak ground accelerations were estimated and used in a deformation analysis as proposed by Makdisi and Seed (1977). The deformations predicted by the analyses are compared with the observed conditions and from the results of the comparison; a preliminary assessment of the analytical techniques and input parameters is made.
