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Florin Pavel and Robert Vladut
This paper is focused on the evaluation of the liquefaction hazard for different sites in Romania. To this aim, a database of 139 ground motions recorded during Vrancea intermediate-depth earthquakes having moment magnitudes MW = 6.0 is employed for the ...
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Mintaek Yoo and Sun Yong Kwon
Liquefaction caused by long-term cyclic loads in loose saturated soil can lead to ground subsidence and superstructure failures. To address this issue, this study aimed to emulate the liquefaction phenomenon based on a shaking table test while especially...
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Francisco Grajales-Saavedra, Alexis Mojica, Carlos Ho, Krysna Samudio, George Mejía, Saddy Li, Larisa Almengor, Roberto Miranda and Melisabel Muñoz
The City of David constitutes one of the most important commercial centers of the Republic of Panama. However, it is located on a coastal plane, close to an area with high seismic activity and has been affected by significant earthquakes (18 July 1934, M...
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Daniela Giretti and Vincenzo Fioravante
This paper reports the results of dynamic centrifuge tests carried out on sandy models alternatively equipped with vertical or horizontal drains. The main aim of the experimentation was to investigate the use of horizontal drains to mitigate the liquefac...
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Claudia Meisina, Roberta Bonì, Massimiliano Bordoni, Carlo Giovanni Lai, Francesca Bozzoni, Renato Maria Cosentini, Doriano Castaldini, Daniela Fontana, Stefano Lugli, Alessandro Ghinoi, Luca Martelli and Paolo Severi
Liquefaction-induced surface manifestations are the result of a complex geological?geotechnical phenomenon, driven by several controlling factors. We propose a multidisciplinary methodological approach, involving engineering geologists, geomorphologists,...
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Davide Forcellini and Anthony Tessari
This paper presents parametric studies that assess the role of loading factors (i.e., number of cycles, frequency, and amplitude) on liquefaction-induced failure by performing numerical simulations. Most of the existing literature considers the effects o...
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Liuqun Dong, Jiming Cao and Xian Liu
With the rapid development of urbanization around the world, the sea-level-rise problem is gaining more and more attention in the 21st century. Sea-level rise is the result of a combination of climate-related factors, structural factors and human activit...
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Brian Bachinilla, Ana Evangelista, Milind Siddhpura, Assed N. Haddad and Bruno B. F. da Costa
High-speed railway is trending in developing countries for economic reasons, mobility in the aftermath of COVID-19, and environmental concerns. The high-speed railway operators continuously improve the operational speed to transport more passengers in le...
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Yalin Zhu, Renyi Chen, Yixian Wang and Juxiang Chen
In order to further explore the influence of reinforcement materials laying position on the dynamic characteristics of reinforced retaining walls, based on FLAC3D finite difference methods for solving nonlinear problems, established with the same size of...
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Xinjun Cheng, Xiang Xu, Zhinan Hu, Liping Jing, Haian Liang and Jie Cui
To study the dynamic response of a saturated sand-underground structure system subjected to earthquakes, a series of shaking table tests with a geometric scale ratio of 1/30 were conducted. Based on the experimental acceleration records of testing soil d...
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