Abstract: Permanent sliding displacements are used to evaluate the seismic stability of earth slopes, and current practice utilizes a pseudoprobabilistic approach to predict the expected sliding displacement. The pseudoprobabilistic ...

Abstract: Earthquake-induced sliding displacement is the parameter most often used to assess the seismic stability of slopes. The expected displacement can be predicted as a function of the characteristics of the slope (yield ...

Abstract: Sliding block displacements often are used to evaluate the potential for ground failure due to slope instability. The procedures used to assess sliding block displacement typically use deterministic or pseudoprobabilistic ...

Abstract: It is well established that the main mechanism for the occurrence of liquefaction under seismic loading conditions is the generation of excess pore water pressure. Most previous research efforts have focused on clean sands, ...

Abstract: Numerical techniques commonly used to compute the dynamic response of soil deposits under earthquake shaking are investigated by analyzing data from instrumented borehole arrays. Eleven instrumented vertical arrays are ...

Abstract: A generic predictive model of earthquake-induced slope displacement subjected to shallow crustal earthquake events is developed using displacements computed from finite-element (FE) analysis. The maximum displacement on ...

Abstract: The response of municipal solid-waste landfills at high levels of earthquake shaking is explored. Results from fully nonlinear dynamic analyses indicate that the seismic response of a landfill, particularly the seismic ...

Abstract: Earthquake-induced sliding displacements of earth structures are generally evaluated using simplified sliding block analyses that do not accurately model the seismic response of the sliding mass nor the seismic forces along ...

Abstract: Seismic site response analysis is typically performed using a suite of rock acceleration-time histories prescribed at the base of a soil column and propagated to the ground surface. To develop statistically stable estimates ...