Seismic Design Of Retaining Gravity Walls





PREFACE

This report was prepared by Professor Robert V. Whitman and

Mr. Samson Liao of the Department of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts



Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, under

Purchase Order No. DACW39-83-M-2088 with the US Army Engineer

Waterways Experiment Station (WES). The work was conducted during

the period April-December 1983 and was jointly sponsored by the

Office, Chief of Engineers (OCE), US Army Civil Works Investiga-

tion Studies, "Computer-Aided Engineering Software," CWIS Work

Unit 31589, and "Special Studies for Civil Work Soils Problems,

CWIS Work Unit 31173. The respective OCE Technical Monitors

were Messrs. Lucian G. Guthrie and Richard F. Davidson, respec-

tively. Dr. P. F. Hadala, Assistant Chief, Geotechnical

Laboratory (GL) was the WES Technical Monitor. The work was

under the general direction of Dr. W. F. Marcuson III, Chief, GL.

COL Tilford C. Creel, CE, and COL Robert C. Lee, CE, were

the Commanders and Directors of WES during the period of this

study. Mr. F. R. Brown was Technical Director.


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