Seismic analysis and design of retaining walls, buried structures, slopes, and embankments

• Corporate Authors: United States. Federal Highway Administration, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
• Other Authors: Anderson, Donald G.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, ©2008.
• Series: Report (National Cooperative Highway Research Program : Online) ; 611.
• Subjects: Earthquake resistant design.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781621982784; 1621982785; 9780309117654; 0309117658
• ISSN: 0077-5614 ;
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (137 pages) : illustrations, PDF file

This report explores analytical and design methods for the seismic design of retaining walls, buried structures, slopes, and embankments. The Final Report is organized into two volumes. NCHRP Report 611 is Volume 1 of this study. Volume 2, which is only available online, presents the proposed specif...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Data collection and review
• Problems and knowledge gaps
• Work plan: Analytical methodologies
• Seismic ground motions
• Height-Dependent Seismic Coefficients
• Retaining walls
• Slopes and embankments
• Buried structures
• Recommendations for future work
• References
• Appendices.