Simplified seismic response of clay embankments

• Main Author: Chee, Charleston Chao Sheng.
• Other Authors: Budi Wibawa
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering::Geotechnical
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52616
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The effects of earthquakes on earth embankments are important in both pre-construction and post analysis of the embankment design. The Makdisi and Seed method is a simplified method of estimating the peak crest acceleration of an earth embankment, and has been a long-standing and renown method of es...