Underwater Shake Table Tests on Waterfront Structures Protected with Tire Chips Cushion
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 134, Issue 12
Abstract
A series of large-scale underwater shaking table tests was performed on a gravity type model caisson protected by a cushioning technique using tire chips (scrap tire derived recycled product). The function of the tire chips cushion is to reduce the load and restricting the permanent displacement of such waterfront retaining structures during earthquakes by exploiting the compressibility, the ductility and the energy absorbing capacity of tire chips. The seismic performance of such earthquake resistant techniques was evaluated by subjecting the soil-structure system into three different earthquake loadings (two actual earthquake records and one synthetic earthquake), and measuring the respective responses. The results demonstrated that the seismic load against the caisson quay wall could be substantially reduced using the proposed technique. In addition, the presence of the protective tire chips cushion could significantly reduce the earthquake-induced residual displacement of the caisson quay wall.
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Acknowledgments
Financial aid for this research came from two different sources. Support for the initial investigation was provided by the Port and Airport Research Institute (PARI), Japan under a special grant for budding research. The detailed investigation was performed with support provided by the Japan Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology (MEXT), Japan under a grant-in-aid for scientific research (Grant No. UNSPECIFIED18206052). The first writer (principal investigator) gratefully acknowledges this support. The timely assistance by Dr. Atsushi Nozu, senior researcher, structural dynamics division, PARI, in providing some of the important data for this paper is also highly appreciated.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 134 • Issue 12 • December 2008
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Received: Feb 18, 2006
Accepted: May 22, 2007
Published online: Dec 1, 2008
Published in print: Dec 2008
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