Geotechnical Applications for Earthquake Engineering: Research Advancements

Geotechnical Applications for Earthquake Engineering: Research Advancements

Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 392

ISBN13: 9781466609150|ISBN10: 146660915X|EISBN13: 9781466609167

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0915-0

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Disaster preparedness and response management is a burgeoning field of technological research, and staying abreast of the latest developments within the field is a difficult task.

Geotechnical Applications for Earthquake Engineering: Research Advancements has collected chapters from experts from around the world in a variety of applications, frameworks, and methodologies, and prepared them in a form that serves as a handy reference and research guide to practitioners and academics alike. By protecting society with earthquake engineering, the latest research can make the world a safer place.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Section 1

Chapter 1

Evaluation of Peak Ground Acceleration and Response Spectra Considering the Local Site Effects: A Probabilistic Logic Tree Approach (pages 1-17)

Sitharam T. G., Vipin K. S.

The local site effects play an important role in the evaluation of seismic hazard. The proper evaluation of the local site effects will help in evaluating the amplification factors for different locations. This article deals with the...

Chapter 2

A Site Specific Study on Evaluation of Design Ground Motion Parameters (pages 18-42)

A. Boominathan, Krishna Kumar S.

Design ground motions are usually developed by one of the two approaches: site-specific analyses or from provisions of building codes. Although contemporary codes do consider approximately the site effects, they provide more...

Chapter 3

Analysis of Passive Earth Pressure and Displacements of Retaining Walls Using Pseudo-Dynamic Approach (pages 43-65)

B. Munwar Basha, G. L. Sivakumar

Using additional dynamic parameters in the pseudo-static method like shear wave and primary wave velocities of soil, phase change in the shear and primary waves, and soil amplification for seismic accelerations, one can benefit from...

Chapter 4

Cyclic Pore Pressure Generation, Dissipation and Densification in Granular Mixes (pages 66-84)

S. Thevanayagam, T. Shenthan

Knowledge of cyclic load induced pore pressure generation, post-liquefaction dissipation and volumetric densification characteristics of sands, silty sands, and silts are important for the analysis of performance of loose saturated...

Chapter 5

Effect of Superstructure Stiffness on Liquefaction-Induced Failure Mechanisms (pages 85-99)

S.P.G. Madabhushi, S.K. Haigh

Soil liquefaction following strong earthquakes causes extensive damage to civil engineering structures. Foundations of buildings, bridges etc can suffer excessive rotation/settlement due to liquefaction. Many of the recent...

Chapter 6

DEM Simulations in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Education (pages 100-109)

J. S. Vinod

Behaviour of geotechnical material is very complex. Most of the theoretical frame work to understand the behaviour of geotechnical materials under different loading conditions depends on the strong background of the basic civil...

Chapter 7

Static and Dynamic Elastic Modulus of Jointed Rock Mass: Influence of Joint Frequency, Joint Inclination and Joint Factor (pages 110-133)

T. G. Sitharam, M. Ramulu, V. B. Maji

In this paper the compressive strength/elastic modulus of the jointed rock mass was estimated as a function of intact rock strength/modulus and joint factor. The joint factor reflects the combined effect of joint frequency, joint...

Section 2

Chapter 8

Blast Induced Damage Due to Repeated Vibrations in Jointed Gneiss Rock Formation (pages 135-159)

M. Ramulu, T. G. Sitharam

Blasting is the most common method of rock excavation technique in mining and civil construction and infrastructure projects. Rock blasting produces seismic waves similar to those produced by earthquakes, but with relatively high...

Chapter 9

Production Blast-Induced Vibrations in Longhole Open Stoping: A Case Study (pages 160-170)

John Henning, Hani Mitri

This paper examines stope design approaches employed at a metal mining operation in Canada for extraction of transverse primary, transverse secondary, and longitudinal stopes. Variations in stope and slot design, blast design, and...

Chapter 10

Development of a New Blast Vibration Prediction Model Incorporating Burden Variations in Surface Blasting (pages 171-187)

M. Ramulu

The globally followed common vibration predictor model includes distance from source to vibration monitoring location and quantity of explosive charge per delay without giving much consideration to blast design parameters. Though...

Chapter 11

Dynamic Tensile Test of Coal, Shale and Sandstone Using Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar: A Tool for Blast and Impact Assessment (pages 188-202)

Kaiwen Xia, Sheng Huang, Ajay Kumar Jha

The dynamic tensile strength plays a pivotal role in rock fragmentation affecting the overall economics under the present ‘Mine to Mill Concept’. In this paper, a modified SHPB technique and Brazilian test method is presented to test...

Chapter 12

A Numerical Approach for Simulation of Rock Fracturing in Engineering Blasting (pages 203-224)

Mani Ram Saharan, Hani Mitri

An approach for simulation of rock fracturing as a result of engineering blasting is presented in this paper. The approach uses element elimination technique within the framework of finite element method to capture the physics of...

Chapter 13

Numerical Prediction of Rock Fracturing During the Process of Excavation (pages 225-237)

Zhangtao Zhou, Zheming Zhu, XinXing Jin, Hao Tang

During the process of excavation, blasting can induce cracking inside the surrounding rock. Considering the effects of material properties and loading conditions, a rock blasting excavation model with two successive excavation steps...

Chapter 14

Investigations on Impact of Blasting in Tunnels (pages 238-248)

Kaushik Dey, V. M. S. R. Murthy

Blasting with longer advance per round leaves an impact both visible (in the form of overbreak) and invisible (cracks) in the surrounding rockmass, however, a number of controlled-blasting techniques, that is line drilling...

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