Abstract A twin girder 7-pier bridge, belonging to the "Egnatia" highway that has been facing numerous challenging geohazards, is built within an active landslide. Its seismic performance investigated here through a comprehensive analysis of interaction between foundation, and precarious slope, which might affect 4 piers. The numerical 3D modeling considers in realistic way coupled effects topo...

ABSTRACT: Shear wall is commonly employed as a principal element to resist lateral loads due to wind or earthquake forces. An accurate model for a shear wall system needs to consider the effect of all components for analyses i.e. shear wall, foundation, and subsoil. This investigation presents the modeling of a shear wall structure foundation and soil system using the super element, finite and ...

Earthquake and scouring are the leading causes of bridge failure worldwide, resulting not only in casualties fatalities but also enormous societal economic losses. A great number bridges earthquake-prone countries cross rivers have shallow foundations, which renders them highly vulnerable to combined effects earthquake flood-induced scour. Thus, research on dynamic response with foundations und...

Beams supported by elastic foundations are one of the complex soil-structure interaction problems that have been studied using "beam on foundation" concept. To support loads, structural foundation and soil continuum must work together. The development more accurate model simpler procedure critical for safety cost-effective construction such type structure. Three nodded beams based Timoshenko be...

Article history: Received: 19.07.2014. Received in revised form: 02.11.2014. Accepted: 11.11.2014. Design and manufacturing of construction materials have been investigated. The aim is to identify methods to produce sustainable economic materials used for soil foundation and concrete structure. Several additives have been analyzed in order to develop acceptable economical construction materials...

In common engineering practice, foundation–soil–foundation interaction of shallow foundations is frequently ignored. This presumably for cost/benefit reasons, since computationally demanding finite-element and/or boundary element models are required that purpose, and its effects usually assumed to be negligible. this sense, the present paper provides a simple inexpensive way incorporating throu...