Tricarico, Michele (2015) Centrifuge Modelling of Flexible Retaining Walls in Saturated Sand under Seismic Actions. [Tesi di dottorato]
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| Item Type: | Tesi di dottorato |
|---|---|
| Resource language: | English |
| Title: | Centrifuge Modelling of Flexible Retaining Walls in Saturated Sand under Seismic Actions. |
| Creators: | Creators Email Tricarico, Michele michele.tricarico159@gmail.com |
| Date: | 31 March 2015 |
| Number of Pages: | 427 |
| Institution: | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
| Department: | Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale |
| Scuola di dottorato: | Ingegneria civile |
| Dottorato: | Ingegneria geotecnica |
| Ciclo di dottorato: | 26 |
| Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato: | nome email Mancuso, Claudio mancuso@unina.it |
| Tutor: | nome email Aversa, Stefano UNSPECIFIED |
| Date: | 31 March 2015 |
| Number of Pages: | 427 |
| Keywords: | Cantrifuge Modelling, Flexible Retaining Walls, Pseudostatic Analysis, Liquefaction of Sand. |
| Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: | Area 08 - Ingegneria civile e Architettura > ICAR/07 - Geotecnica |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Apr 2015 10:51 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Oct 2015 12:41 |
| URI: | http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/10405 |
| DOI: | 10.6092/UNINA/FEDOA/10405 |
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In this work the seismic behaviour of flexible retaining walls embedded in saturated sand has been inevstigate carring out a total of seven centrifuge tests at the Schofield Centre of University of Cambridge. The head of piezometric fluid has been collocated at the excavated level. Two possible structural configurations have been chosen: cantilever walls and walls with one level of props at the top. The results have been examined in detail in terms of the monitored physical quantities: acceleration in the soil, walls displacements, pore pressures, bending moment and axial force in the props when present. Focus is made on amplification phenomena, phase difference in the accelerations, developing of pore pressures and related decrease of soil shearing resistance, collapse mechanism of the walls, entity of accumulated displacements and changing in bending moment distribution. A further level of interpretation has been represented by the comparison of the results with respect tests performed on similar models in dry sand and the prevision of bending moment with Limit Equilibrium Analyses. In the last Chapter the calibration of an advanced constitutive model is carried out.
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