Double-layer floor to mitigate in-structure shock of underground structures : a conceptual design

• Main Authors: Zhou, Hongyuan, Ma, Guowei
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/94971; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8135
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In-structure shock poses a great threat to equipment and devices in underground protective structures, preventing them from accomplishing designed tasks. Unlike traditional mitigation methods such as backfilling soft soil or sand around the buried structures and adding shock-isolation cushions to th...