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Co-seismic and post-seismic behavior of a wall type breakwater on a natural ground composed of liquefiable layer

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The tsunami disaster countermeasures such as breakwaters might be damaged or lose their capacity to resist tsunami after a strong earthquake. Therefore, not only the co-seismic behaviors of a breakwater and its foundation system during earthquake loading, but also the post-seismic behavior after the earthquake loading should be investigated and estimated for future tsunami preparation, especially when the foundation ground is composed of liquefiable layer, which may cause large amount of displacement to the breakwater. In this study, the co-seismic and post-seismic behavior of an existing wall type breakwater on a natural ground which is composed of nonuniform liquefiable layer and thick cohesive layer with low permeability is investigated using an effective stress-based soil–water coupling numerical method. In the calculation, the complicated nonlinear dynamic behavior of the foundation soil is described by an advanced elasto-plastic soil constitutive model. A real recorded seismic wave, which consists of a major shock and two aftershocks from the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake, is adopted as the input earthquake loading. The calculation results indicate that the used numerical method is capable of capturing the progressive liquefaction and consolidation process of the foundation soil, as well as the subsidence and differential settlement of the breakwater during and after earthquake loading. The influence of earthquake loading can significantly reduce the capacity of breakwater to resist tsunami which may arrive within 1 h after earthquake; therefore, anti-seismic design should be taken into consideration in future tsunami preparation.

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This work was supported by National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41472249 and 51308346), Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 2014A030313551), Natural Science Foundation of SZU (Grant No. 201420), Foundation of Key Laboratory of Geotechnical and Underground Engineering (KLE-TJGE-B1504) and Scientific and Technical Innovation Foundation of Shenzheng (Grant No. JCYJ20150324140036839).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Geotechnical and Underground Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China

    Xiaohua Bao & Bin Ye

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China

    Xiaohua Bao

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Guanlin Ye

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, 4668555, Japan

    Feng Zhang

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Bao, X., Ye, B., Ye, G. et al. Co-seismic and post-seismic behavior of a wall type breakwater on a natural ground composed of liquefiable layer. Nat Hazards 83, 1799–1819 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2401-2

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