Liquefaction Induced Lateral Deformations Computational…液化诱导的横向变形计算.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation ISRN Civil Engineering Volume 2013, Article ID 408961, 8 pages /10.1155/2013/408961 Research Article Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Deformations Computational Assessment during Tohoku Earthquake Davide Forcellini,1 Fabio Della Bartola,1 and Angelo Marcello Tarantino2 1 ` Dipartimento Economia e Tecnologia, Universita di San Marino, Via Salita alla Rocca 44, 47890 San Marino, San Marino 2 ` Dipartimento Ingegneria 鈥淓nzo Ferrari鈥? Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Vignolese 905, 41125 Modena, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Davide Forcellini; davforc@omniway.sm Received 11 June 2013; Accepted 3 July 2013 麓 Academic Editors: F. Hernandez-Olivares and B. Uy Copyright 漏 2013 Davide Forcellini et al. his is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Liquefaction-induced lateral spreading during Tohoku earthquake resulted in signiicant damage, and disruption of functionality for structures and life. he paper aims at reproducing this on-site evidence presenting the state of the art about the most credited qualitative approach and comparing these methods with numerical computation. In this regard, inite element (FE) simulations are increasingly providing a versatile environment in order to assess economical and efective damage. In the study, several systematic three-dimensional FE computations have been conducted to numerically evaluate the efects in terms of liquefaction-induced lateral deformations. h