Author(s)

D.D. Theodorakopoulos, A.P. Chassiakos, D.E. Beskos

Abstract

Harmonic response of a rigid wall retaining poroelastic soil by direct approach D.D. Theodorakopoulos, A.P. Chassiakos and D.E. Beskos Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, Greece Abstract The problem of the determination of the dynamic pressures and the associated forces on a rigid, vertical cantilever wall retaining a semi-infinite, uniform, fully- saturated poroelastic layer of soil is solved analytically under conditions of plane strain. Hysteretic damping in the soil skeleton may also be present. The rigid wall and the base of the soil layer are both excited by an acceleration harmonically varying with time and spatially invariant. The governing partial differential equations of motion, after separation of variables and the simplifying assumption of zero vertical normal stresses, reduce to a system of two ordinary differential equations for the amplitudes of the horizontal solid skeleton displacement and the pore water pressure, which are easily so

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