EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING DESIGN OF EARTH FILLS
This report describes earthquake engineering designs presently used for earth fills, and discusses the concepts and problems concerned with such designs along with the results of failure tests on earth fills carried out by use of a large vibrating table as they relate to slip calculations. The types of earth fills covered include the fill dam, the levee, a railroad embankment, a road embankment, and an artificial island for a transverse road across Tokyo Bay. It was found that a reduced modified seismic coefficient rather than the estimated maximum seismic coefficient may be used in the calculation for stability analysis, and that if the dynamic excessive pore pressure produced in the soil is introduced in the calculation of slip, the phenomenon of failure can be explained with good results. In conclustion, it was noted that more data are needed from comparative experiments of the effect of earthquake proof measures for earth fills.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Papers of International Conferences 1972-19749 Presented at the 5th Joint Mtg., US-Japan Panal on Wind and Seismic Effects, U-JNR, Tokyo, May 14-168 1973.
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Corporate Authors:
Public Works Research Institute
2-28-32 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo, Japan -
Authors:
- Yamamura, Kazuhiro
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1975
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 185-203
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Calculation; Coefficients; Design; Earth dams; Earthquake resistant design; Earthquake resistant structures; Earthquakes; Embankments; Failure; Fills; Levees; Pore pressure; Slip (Fluid mechanics); Stability analysis; Structural analysis; Testing
- Uncontrolled Terms: Computation; Seismic coefficients
- Old TRIS Terms: Slip coefficient
- Subject Areas: Design; Geotechnology; Highways; Marine Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00128523
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: Tech Memo #1023 Pt I
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: May 14 1976 12:00AM