Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 072325a8-02ea-4d59-bb3f-06592c340804
Document Type: srp
Title: The Aluminum Association, Specification for Aluminum Structures
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0520/ML052070327.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 3
Section ID: 3.4
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York, NY, 1986), which is currently being revised by ASCE, identifies certain analytical methods to be used to establish dynamic lateral soil pressures for the design of retaining walls or structures founded below grade surface (J. H. Wood, "Earthquake- Induced Soil Pressures on Structures," Report No. EERL 73-05, Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, August 1973, and H. B. Seed and R. V. Whitman, "Design of Earth Retaining Structures for Dynamic Loads," Proceedings of the ASCE Specialty Conference on lateral Stresses in the Ground and Design of Earth Retaining Structures, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1970). These methods are based on the original analysis of this problem by Mononobe and Okabe (M-O) in the 1920s (ASCE 4-86) (Ref. 4, 5, 6, and 7). Seed and Whitman (1970) presented a classical state-of-the-art report at the ASCE Specialty Conference on Lateral Stresses in the Ground and Design of Earth-Retaining Structures held in 1970. They presented data to show that seismic lateral pressure coefficients for cohesionless backfills computed by the M-O method agreed reasonably well with the values developed in small-scale (model) tests. Subsequently, several researchers made significant contributions to this important subject area: (1) R. V. Whitman, "Seismic Design and Behavior of Gravity Retaining Walls," Proceedings of the ASCE Conference on Design and Performance of Earth Retaining Structures, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1990; (2) R. Richards, Jr. and D. G. Elms, "Seismic Behavior of Gravity Retaining Walls," ASCE Journal, GT Division, Vol. 105, April 1979; (3) R. V. Whitman, "Seismic Design of Earth Retaining Structures," Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and soil Dynamics, St. Louis, MO, March 11 through 15, 1991; (4) C. Y. Chang et al., "Analysis of Dynamic lateral Soil Pressures Recorded on Lotung Reactor Containment Model