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Protecting Underground Tunnel by Rubber-Soil Mixtures
This paper presents a promising earthquake protection method by placing rubber-soil mixtures (RSM) around underground tunnels for absorbing vibration energy and exerting a function similar to that of a cushion. The validity of the method will be demonstrated by numerical simulations using various recorded earthquake ground motions. The use of scrap tires as the rubber material can provide an alternative way of consuming huge stockpiles of scrap tires from all over the world. Moreover, the low cost of this proposed method can greatly benefit developing countries where resources and technology are not adequate for earthquake mitigation using welldeveloped, yet expensive, techniques.
Protecting Underground Tunnel by Rubber-Soil Mixtures
This paper presents a promising earthquake protection method by placing rubber-soil mixtures (RSM) around underground tunnels for absorbing vibration energy and exerting a function similar to that of a cushion. The validity of the method will be demonstrated by numerical simulations using various recorded earthquake ground motions. The use of scrap tires as the rubber material can provide an alternative way of consuming huge stockpiles of scrap tires from all over the world. Moreover, the low cost of this proposed method can greatly benefit developing countries where resources and technology are not adequate for earthquake mitigation using welldeveloped, yet expensive, techniques.
Protecting Underground Tunnel by Rubber-Soil Mixtures
Tsang, Hing-Ho (author) / Lam, Jeffery Y. K. (author) / Yaghmaei-Sabegh, Saman (author) / Lo, S. H. (author)
Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Conference (TCLEE) 2009 ; 2009 ; Oakland, California, United States
TCLEE 2009 ; 1-11
2009-06-24
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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