Location
San Diego, California
Presentation Date
28 Mar 2001, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Abstract
This paper reports failure of retaining structures related to the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake. On September 21 of 1999, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale struck Taiwan. At the site near Tou-Sheh, overturning failure was observed on a 2.5 m-high gravity wall located near the epicenter. At the site near the Temple of Ten-thousand Buddha, a masonry wall constructed with cobble was damaged. Upper part of wall shifted outward about 0.2 m with respect to its lower part. At the site of Cinema-Culture Town, a gravity wall built on top of the Che-Lung-Pu fault was severely damaged. The heel of the wall was uplifted by the fault rupture. At the parking lot of the Lalu Resort, the retaining wall constructed on a slope moved down the slope during the earthquake. A circular sliding surface can be observed in the collapsed backfill. At the entrance of National Chi-Nan University, a geogrid-reinforced wall was severely damaged during the earthquake. Reinforcing strips were pulled out under the seismic load and fill materials fell out.
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
Fang, Yung-Show; Chen, Tsang-Jiang; Yang, Yu-Chih; and Tang, Cheng-Chieh, "The Behavior of Retaining Walls Under 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake" (2001). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 3.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/04icrageesd/session10/3
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The Behavior of Retaining Walls Under 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake
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This paper reports failure of retaining structures related to the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake. On September 21 of 1999, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale struck Taiwan. At the site near Tou-Sheh, overturning failure was observed on a 2.5 m-high gravity wall located near the epicenter. At the site near the Temple of Ten-thousand Buddha, a masonry wall constructed with cobble was damaged. Upper part of wall shifted outward about 0.2 m with respect to its lower part. At the site of Cinema-Culture Town, a gravity wall built on top of the Che-Lung-Pu fault was severely damaged. The heel of the wall was uplifted by the fault rupture. At the parking lot of the Lalu Resort, the retaining wall constructed on a slope moved down the slope during the earthquake. A circular sliding surface can be observed in the collapsed backfill. At the entrance of National Chi-Nan University, a geogrid-reinforced wall was severely damaged during the earthquake. Reinforcing strips were pulled out under the seismic load and fill materials fell out.
