Eduardo Kausel Hommage à AnestisVeletsos ABSTRACT Soil Structure Interaction is an interdisciplinary field of endeavor which lies at the intersection of soil and structural mechanics, soil and structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, geophysics and geomechanics, material science, computational and numerical methods, and diverse other technical disciplines. Its origins trace back to the late...

Abstract The rapid development of the global economy has led to an increased energy demand throughout world. More than 70% world’s consumption is from use fossil fuels. In wake rising temperatures and carbon emissions, policymakers across globe think about alternate renewable ways generation, among which wind a promising source. Offshore turbines are new technologies challenging when it comes t...

This report reviews the soil-structure interaction (SSI) researches relating to three major earthquakes recently occurred in Japan, which include the 1993 Kushiro-oki earthquake, aftershocks of the 1993 Hokkaido-Nansei-oki earthquake and the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake. The review work is focussed on the simulation analyses conducted on the basis of simultaneous earthquake records observed ...

In common buildings the soil-structure-interaction (SSI) is governed by the elastic behaviour of the building. The best conditions to see the soil effect predominate would be a dynamic rigid body movement of a massive building. For this reason measurements were carried out on an old anti-aircraft tower from World War II on typical Viennese soil conditions. The dynamic properties of the soil cou...

Described here is the Plastic Domain Decomposition (PDD) Method for parallel elasticplastic finite element computations related to Soil–Foundation–Structure Interaction (SFSI) problems. The PDD provides for efficient parallel elastic-plastic finite element computations steered by an adaptable, runtime repartitioning of the finite element domain. The adaptable repartitioning aims at balancing co...

In today’s world, construction projects tend to be more complex due one or a combination of the following reasons: climate change impacting design requirements; enhanced material properties; scarcity greenfield sites in highly built-up cities, leading challenging underground construction; easily accessible scientific knowledge; prowess computational speed; advent new technologies driving innova...