Abstract: In 1993 Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, issued the first formal Corps-wide analysis procedure providing guidance for analyzing the effects of barge impact loading on navigation structures. The guidance was ...

Abstract: Few solution techniques exist for the determination of dynamic passive earth pressures for cohesionless soils. The pseudostatic dynamic Mononobe-Okabe equation is widely used to design structures that must resist earthquake ...

Abstract: With a limited amount of data on soil properties and limited instrumentation readings, important aspects of lock performance from initial construction through major flood events, including siltation, were reasonably estimated ...

Abstract: The probability of unsatisfactory performance (PUP) is taken into consideration during the design of the US Army Corps of Engineers hydraulic structures retaining earth. These structures possess multiple limit states. A ...

Abstract: Massive concrete walls constructed on rock foundations, as well as other nonmoving retaining walls, are customarily designed for at-rest earth pressures. Vertical shear loads applied by the backfill are usually not considered ...

Abstract: A relatively simple, four-parameter extended hyperbolic model for interfaces was developed for use in soil-structure interaction analyses. The model accommodates arbitrary stress path directions and includes three important ...

Abstract: The hyperbolic stress‐strain model has been shown to be valid for modeling the nonlinear stress‐strain behavior of soils prior to failure in soil‐structure interaction analyses. However, guidelines for selecting hyperbolic ...