Journal
SOIL DYNAMICS AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
Volume 44, Issue -, Pages 102-114Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2012.09.008
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- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [2012-0000154]
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In dynamic centrifuge tests, appropriate boundary conditions are required in order to simulate the seismic semi-infinite soil layer responses within the confines of a finite size model container. An ESB (equivalent shear beam) model container first designed at the University of Cambridge was built with a stack of light-weight aluminum frames separated by rubber to experimentally achieve this goal. In this paper, a significant number of dynamic centrifuge tests and the corresponding seismic response analyses were performed to evaluate the dynamic performance of a newly constructed ESB model container and to shed light on the range of testable soil conditions. In the set of conducted tests, it appears that the end walls of the ESB model container behave in accordance with the dynamic response of the soil deposit, despite a difference in the natural period depending on the relative density of the sand deposit. This is attributed to the differences in mass and stiffness of the end walls compared to those of the contained soil model. For partially filled model container, significant differences in seismic responses are observed in the end walls and in the soil deposit due to seismic interaction caused by the upper unfilled frames of the container. These findings suggest that dynamic model tests using this ESB model container should be conducted with the container completely filled. In addition, on the basis of a comparison with the seismic soil behavior inside a rigid-walled model container, it is clear that the ESB model container can provide a more representative lateral boundary configuration for dynamic site response studies. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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