Abstract: This paper examines a seismic capacity design approach for retaining structures with piled foundations, which assumes full-strength mobilization in the soil and in the foundation piles during the earthquake. The plastic ...

Abstract: In this paper, the seismic behavior of embedded cantilevered retaining walls in a coarse-grained soil is studied with a number of numerical analyses, using a nonlinear hysteretic model coupled with a Mohr-Coulomb failure ...

Abstract: This paper deals with the capacity of bridge abutments, which is an important element for the evaluation of the seismic performance of bridges with integral or semi-integral abutments and yet has received little attention ...