Development of Innovative Foundation Systems to Optimize Seismic Behavior of Bridge Structures

29 Jul 2008 | Contributor(s): Lijun Deng, Emrah Erduran, Jose Ugalde, Sivapalan Gajan, Sashi Kunnath, Bruce Lloyd Kutter

Preliminary results from a study to develop innovative bridge foundations to optimize bridge performance under earthquake events are presented. Numerical models of bridges with both flexible and stiff footings are compared to demonstrate the potential importance of soil-footing stiffness on the...

Two-Dimensional Interface Model Applied to Masonry Structures

29 Jul 2008 | Contributor(s): Carlo Citto

This thesis describes some of the analytical and experimental studies conducted at the University of Colorado for this project.

Study of Surface Wave Methods for Deep Shear Wave Velocity Profiles Applied in the Upper Mississippi Embayment

29 Jul 2008 | Contributor(s): Jianhua Li

PhD Dissertation by Jianhua Li - University of Missouri-Columbia, October 2008.

Development of Shear Wave Velocity Profiles in the Deep Sediments of the Mississippi Embayment Using Surface Wave and Spectral Ratio Methods

29 Jul 2008 | Contributor(s): Jonathan Bailey

MS Thesis by Jonathan Bailey - University of Missouri-Columbia, August 2008.

Centrifuge Test Plan for Test Series SHD01

30 Jul 2007 | Contributor(s): Shideh Dashti, Jonathan Bray, Dan Wilson,

Test series 1 investigates the seismic performance of a scale model of the prototype soil-foundation-structural system at liquefied and softened ground sites. This test series is anticipated to develop insight into the foundation movement of structures at sites undergoing liquefaction. The...

Centrifuge Test Plan for Test Series SHD02

30 Jul 2007 | Contributor(s): Shideh Dashti, Jonathan Bray, Dan Wilson,

Test series 2 investigates the seismic performance of a scale model of the prototype soil-foundation-structural system at liquefied and softened ground sites. This test series is anticipated to develop insight into the foundation movement of structures at sites undergoing liquefaction. The...

SGER: Testing of a New Line of Seismic Base Isolators

29 Jul 2007 | Contributor(s): Valentin Shustov, Siavash Basseri, Sergey Shustov

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation, Program of Structural Systemsand Hazards Mitigation of Structures (SSHM), Award No 0618183. The testing facility for theproject was the UC San Diego Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table (LHPOST) withthe operational support from The...

PILE PINNING EFFECTS ON A BRIDGE ABUTMENT IN LATERALLY SPREADING GROUND DURING EARTHQUAKES: CENTRIFUGE DATA REPORT FOR UGU02

29 Jul 2007 | Contributor(s): Umit Gulerce, Richard Armstrong, Arash Khosravifar, Ross W Boulanger, Bruce Lloyd Kutter

Report for Experiment-UGU02

PILE PINNING EFFECTS ON A BRIDGE ABUTMENT IN LATERALLY SPREADING GROUND DURING EARTHQUAKES: CENTRIFUGE DATA REPORT FOR UGU01

29 Jul 2007 | Contributor(s): Umit Gulerce, Richard Armstrong, Scott Brandenberg, Arash Khosravifar, Ross W Boulanger, Bruce Lloyd Kutter

Report for Experiment-UGU01

PILE PINNING EFFECTS ON A BRIDGE ABUTMENT IN LATERALLY SPREADING GROUND DURING EARTHQUAKES: CENTRIFUGE DATA REPORT FOR DDC03

29 Jul 2007 | Contributor(s): D. Chang, Umit Gulerce, Richard Armstrong, Arash Khosravifar, Ross W Boulanger, Bruce Lloyd Kutter

Report for Experiment-DDC03

Seismic Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Buildings Including Effects of Masonry Infill Walls

29 Jul 2007 | Contributor(s): Alidad Hashemi, Khalid Mosalam

[PEER Report]. A comprehensive study to evaluate the seismic performance of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings including unreinforced masonry (URM) infill walls is performed in three sequentialparts: (1) shake-table experiments, (2) computational modeling, and (3) reliability-based performance...

Small-Amplitude Vibration Tests of a Full-Scale Reinforced-Concrete Flat-Plate Structure

29 Jul 2006 | Contributor(s): Luis Arboleda

The lateral stiffness and the free-vibration frequencies of a full-scale reinforced-concrete flat-plate structure were estimated by means of small-amplitude vibration tests (mean drift ratio onal structure to a set of 2-D parallel frames. Tests of 6x12 in. cylinders and slender prismatic beams...

Analytical and Experimental Study of Concentrically Braced Frames With Zipper Struts

29 Jul 2006 | Contributor(s): Chuang-Sheng Yang

A dissertation by Chuang-Sheng Yang for the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Georgia Institute of Technology (December 2006).

Similitude Considerations for Small-Scale Distributed Hybrid Testing of RC Bridges

30 Jul 2005 | Contributor(s): Curtis Holub

The commissioning of the Multi-Axial Full-Scale Sub-Structured Testing and Simulation (MUST-SIM) facility at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has created a multitude of new and exciting research opportunities for the earthquake engineering community. In addition to the...

Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Membrane Elements under Cyclic Shear: Experiments to Theory

30 Jul 2001

Eartquake-proof construction

30 Jul 1995 | Contributor(s): Dimitrios Lignos, David Benham

a report

Experiments and Analyses to Study the Seismic Response of Reinforced Concrete Frame-Wall Structures with Yielding Columns

30 Jul 1989

Experiments and analyses were performed to study the effect on lateral displacement response of two factors. These were the effects on drift response of (1) using slender walls in frames with yielding columns and (2) placing a structural hinge at the base of slender walls to reduce strength and...

Jake Sherman Thesis at WSU 2011

30 Jul 1988

An Experimental and Analytical Study of the Earthquake Response of R/C Frames with Yielding Columns

30 Jul 1986

The objective of this investigation was to study the response of ´strong beam´-´weak column´ (SBWC) frames to strong ground motions by means of a combined experimental and analytical program. Based on the computed displacement trends of SBWC frames, for the ground motions and frames...

Experiments to Study the Earthquake Response of Reinforced Concrete Frames with Setbacks

30 Jul 1985 | Contributor(s): Sharon Wood

Ph.D. Thesis