Lateral spreading within a limit equilibrium framework: Newmark's sliding blocks with degrading yield accelerations

Authors :: D. T. Gillins
Sanjay Kumar Shukla
Ben Leshchinsky
Michael J. Olsen
H. Benjamin Mason
Pragyan Pradatta Sahoo
Source :: Géotechnique. 70:559-561
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: Thomas Telford Ltd., 2020.
Abstract: Lateral spreading is a prevalent geotechnical problem associated with earthquake-induced liquefaction, often occurring at gentle slopes of loose, saturated sand near bodies of water and causing sig...

Subjects :: 021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Earthquake engineering
Yield (engineering)
business.industry
0211 other engineering and technologies
Liquefaction
02 engineering and technology
Structural engineering
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
Soil structure interaction
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Geotechnical engineering
Limit (mathematics)
business
Geology
021101 geological & geomatics engineering

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