Abstract: A study is made of the axially symmetric torsion of a rigid cylinder partially embedded into a layered elastic half space. The problem is formulated on the basis of perfect bonding between ...

Abstract: The problem of determining the response of a rigid strip footing bonded to an elastic half plane is considered. The footing is subjected to vertical, shear, and moment forces with harmonic ...

Abstract: The possibility of using experimentally determined foundation impedance functions (dynamic stiffness) to infer the dynamic properties of the underlying soil deposit is explored. The foundation is modeled as a rigid block ...

Abstract: Blind predictions for the response during forced vibration tests of a large‐scale containment model supported on soft soils and located in Lotung, Taiwan, are compared with recorded data. The predictions for two sets of ...

Abstract: Predictions for the seismic response of the Lotung, Taiwan, large‐scale containment model are compared with the response recorded during the Taiwan earthquake of May 20, 1986

Abstract: The effects of soil‐structure interaction on the form of the control rule and on the effectiveness of active control of the seismic response of structures are examined. The structure is modeled as a uniform shear beam ...

Abstract: A least-squares method is used to determine the fundamental parameters of a simple mathematical model for the mechanical subsystem of the NEES-UCSD large high performance outdoor shaking table. The parameters identified ...

Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to investigate the tracking (signal reproduction) capability of the UCSD-NEES shake table system through a series of broadband and harmonic experiments with different tuning and test ...