This paper presents the preliminary research works on a potential seismic isolation method
that makes use of scrap rubber tires for the protection of low‐to‐medium‐rise buildings. The …

This paper proposes a promising seismic isolation method particularly suitable for
developing countries, which makes use of rubber–soil mixtures. Apart from reducing the …

Despite the significant progresses in discrete-based numerical studies of granular materials,
most efforts have been placed in the study of large deformation problems and there are …

This paper presents a laboratory investigation of the strain-dependent dynamic properties of
volcanic granular soils composed of a rhyolitic crushed rock along with additional …

In this paper, a plastic-damage model for concrete was coupled with the generalized plastic
model for rockfill materials and applied to the two-dimensional analysis of a concrete faced …

It is critically importance to accurately locate vulnerable areas and quantitatively assess the
damage of the face slab in the seismic safety evaluation of concrete faced rockfill dams …

Since it was presented, the scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) has been
shown to be versatile and has been widely applied in structural numerical simulations …

Traditionally, seismic isolation is a flexible or sliding interface positioned between a structure
and its foundation for the purpose of decoupling the motions of the ground from that of the …

Gravelly soils and aggregates composed of crushed rock are commonly encountered in a
variety of applications in geotechnical, transportation and infrastructure engineering …

There is no convincing approach to determine the soil viscous damping in the time-history
dynamic analysis of tunnels due to the forms and inherent limitations of viscous damping …