1st Edition
Earth Retaining Structures Design and Seismic Performance
Part I: Design
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
8. Numerical Analyses for the Design of Earth Retaining Structures
9. Specific Design Aspects for Deep Excavations
10. Monitoring of Deep Excavations
Part Ii: Seismic Analysis
11. Seismic Performance of Constructions
12. Definition of Seismic Actions
13. Cyclic Soil Behaviour and Ground Response Analysi
14. Seismic Response of Earth Retaining Structures and Analysis Methods: An Overview
15. Evaluation of Seismic Demand
16. Capacity Curve and Critical Seismic Coefficient
17. Time-Domain Methods
18. Static Non-Linear Analysis of Earth Retaining Structures
19. Conventional Static Methods
20. Effect of Vertical Acceleration
References
Appendix - Evaluation of Earth Pressures on Retaining Structures
Biography
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.
