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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 51
ENGINEERING STRUCTURES UNDER EARTHQUAKE LOADING
Edited by: G. Thierauf
Paper IV.1

Structure-Soil-Structure Interaction Considering Local Nonlinearities

N. Chouw and G. Schmid

Department of Civil Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
N. Chouw, G. Schmid, "Structure-Soil-Structure Interaction Considering Local Nonlinearities", in G. Thierauf, (Editor), "Engineering Structures under Earthquake Loading", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 61-66, 1997. doi:10.4203/ccp.51.4.1
Abstract
An approach to analyse structural vibration considering structure- soil-structure interaction and nonlinearities is presented. The structures are described by finite elements and the subsoil by boundary elements in the Laplace domain. Nonlinearities, e.g. pounding between buildings during earthquakes, will be taken into account by alternatively performing the calculations in the Laplace domain and time domain. Investigations show that a realistic vibration response of buildings can not be deducted from analysis without consideration of the structure-soil-structure interaction.

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