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- Title
- Three Dimensional Dynamic Response Analysis of Earth Dams.
- File
- PB82137274.pdf
- Author(s)
- Mejia, L. H.; Seed, H. B.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., September 1981, 273 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- UCB/EERC-81/15
- Abstract
- Many large dams exist for which the assumption of plane strain conditions during dynamic loading constitutes only an approximation of their true behavior. In these cases, a full three-dimensional dynamic response analysis appears to be warranted. The purpose of the present work has been to develop numerical techniques for the three dimensional dynamic analysis of earth and rockfill dams and to compare the results obtained from such analyses with those determined by two-dimensional plane strain analyses.
- Keywords
- Earthquake resistant structures; Dynamic loads; Plane strain analysis; Dynamic response; Finite element analysis; Earthquake engineering; Soil properties; Earth dams; Earthquakes; Dynamic structural analysis