Earth Retaining Structures: Design and Seismic Performance

This offers a comprehensive and insightful guide to the analysis and design of earth retaining structures, with a particular focus on their behaviour under seismic loading conditions and soil and structure interaction. It combines principles with practice, and relates the behaviour of earth retaining systems to the fundamental principles of soil mechanics and the methodologies of limit states design. The design approach is modern and rigorous. The book’s innovative and original methods for seismic analysis and application to practical engineering problems satisfy the increased need for earthquake-resistant geotechnical design. This is primarily a textbook for graduate students in civil and geotechnical engineering, and also a reference for practising engineers to update and refine their design skills, particularly in relation to seismic performance and modern design standards.

Table of Contents:

0. Front Matter. 1. INTRODUCTION. 2. PRELIMINARY CONCEPTS. 3. EARTH PRESSURE ON RETAINING STRUCTURES. 4. PRINCIPLES OF LIMIT STATES DESIGN. 5. DESIGN OF GRAVITY RETAINING WALLS. 6. AN INTRODUCTORY GUIDE TO THE DESIGN OF EMBEDDED RETAINING WALLS. 7. DESIGN OF RETAINING WALLS WITH MULTIPLE CONSTRAINING LEVELS: THE SUBGRADE REACTION METHOD. 8. NUMERICAL ANALYSES FOR THE DESIGN OF EARTH RETAINING STRUCTURES. 9. SPECIFIC DESIGN ASPECTS FOR DEEP EXCAVATIONS. 10. MONITORING OF EXCAVATIONS. 11. A PRIMER ON GETOECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING. 12. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF EARTH RETAINING STRUCTURES. 13. SEISMIC DEMAND AND CAPACITY. 14. TIME-DOMAIN ANALYSIS METHODS. 15. NONLINEAR STATIC ANALYSIS. 16. STATIC CONVENTIONAL METHODS. 17. EFFECT OF VERTICAL COMPONENT OF SEISMIC MOTION. 18. EXAMPLE CALCULATIONS OF SEISMIC PERFORMANCE. End Matter. References.

Luigi Callisto is a Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome, where he teaches undergraduate and Soil Mechanics and graduate Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. As part of the Eurocode 8 Project Team he drafted the section on earth retaining structures and serves as vice-chair of the Italian mirror committee of SC8. He is presently involved in drafting a new Italian technical code for the design and maintenance of dams and is a member of the committee revising the national building code. Since 2007 he has been a consultant on the effects of excavations and tunnelling on historically significant monuments and buildings for Rome’s new Metro Line C. He also collaborates with Italferr S.p.A., the Italian railway design company, on a contract to integrate his seismic design methods for earth retaining structures into their design procedures.