Abstract: A three‐dimensional boundary element technique for the earthquake analysis of arch dams is presented. The dam and the foundation rock are assumed to be viscoelastic domains, the latter being boundless. Under the assumption ...

Abstract: The three‐dimensional boundary element (BE) technique presented in a companion paper by Maeso and Domínguez is extended to include the fluid domain in addition to the dam and the compliant foundation. Linear viscoelastic ...

Abstract: The effects of the ground motion spatial variation and of the canyon geometry on the dynamic response of arch dams during the event of an earthquake is studied in this paper. The seismic response of a dam subject to time ...

Abstract: The influence of the variability of the soil profile on the translational and rotational kinematic interaction factors of pile foundations is analyzed. Variable-with-depth profiles representative of different soil types ...