Location
San Diego, California
Presentation Date
29 Mar 2001, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Abstract
Large shaking table tests of the caisson type seawalls under various conditions were conducted in order to investigate the effects of the armored embankment and the improvement of sandy seabed and backfill by densification to the deformation of the seawalls during earthquake. Main results obtained from the shaking table tests were as follows : (1) Seaward horizontal displacement and tilting of the caisson were drastically reduced by the existence of the armored embankment in front of the caisson. (2) Improvement of the sandy seabed by densification method just under the rubble mound was much effective to reduction of the displacements of the caisson. (3) It was possible that the lateral movement of the liquefied backfill was reduced by the improvement of a part of the backfill just behind the caisson even though without the armored embankment in front of the caisson.
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
Kanatani, Marmoru; Tochigi, Hitoshi; Kawai, Tadashi; and Ishikawa, Hiroyuki, "Effects of Ground Improvement and Armored Embankment to the Displacements of the Seawalls and Back Fill During Earthquake" (2001). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 2.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/04icrageesd/session07/2
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Effects of Ground Improvement and Armored Embankment to the Displacements of the Seawalls and Back Fill During Earthquake
San Diego, California
Large shaking table tests of the caisson type seawalls under various conditions were conducted in order to investigate the effects of the armored embankment and the improvement of sandy seabed and backfill by densification to the deformation of the seawalls during earthquake. Main results obtained from the shaking table tests were as follows : (1) Seaward horizontal displacement and tilting of the caisson were drastically reduced by the existence of the armored embankment in front of the caisson. (2) Improvement of the sandy seabed by densification method just under the rubble mound was much effective to reduction of the displacements of the caisson. (3) It was possible that the lateral movement of the liquefied backfill was reduced by the improvement of a part of the backfill just behind the caisson even though without the armored embankment in front of the caisson.
