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Safety Assessment of Piled Buildings in Liquefiable Soils: Mathematical Tools

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Case study of pile damage during the 1995 Kobe earthquake; Geotechnical analysis of pile foundation in liquefiable soils; Numerical Modeling; Pile foundations in liquefiable soils; Reliability of pile foundations; Seismic Analysis of Pile Foundations; Soil-Structure Interaction

Introduction

Piles are routinely used as foundations to support short-to-medium span bridges and buildings typically over four stories and other structures. Collapse and/or severe damage of pile-supported structures is still observed in liquefiable soils after most major earthquakes such as the 1995 Kobe earthquake (Japan), the 1999 Kocaeli earthquake (Turkey), and the 2001 Bhuj earthquake (India). The failures not only occurred in laterally spreading (sloping) ground but were also observed in level ground where no lateral spreading would be anticipated. A good discussion on the failure modes can be found in Bhattacharya and Madabhushi (2008).

The failures were often accompanied by settlement and...

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  1. University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

    Subhamoy Bhattacharya

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  1. Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Michael Beer

  2. Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Sustainability, Liverpool, UK

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Dynamics, Liverpool, UK

    Siu-Kui Au

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Bhattacharya, S. (2015). Safety Assessment of Piled Buildings in Liquefiable Soils: Mathematical Tools. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_232

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