Japanese Geotechnical Society Special Publication
Online ISSN : 2188-8027
ISSN-L : 2188-8027
6. Foundations - Lateral loading
Horizontal loading experiments on reinforced gravity type breakwater with steel walls
Yoshiaki KikuchiShohei KawabeShinji TaenakaShunsuke Moriyasu
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2016 Volume 2 Issue 35 Pages 1267-1272

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In the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, especially coastal areas of the Pacific Ocean suffered extensive damage by tsunami. Then, there were needs to develop reinforcement methods for existing breakwaters against tsunami force. The authors proposed a method to reinforce a breakwater against tsunami with a steel wall behind the breakwater. This report presents the experimental results of the breakwater reinforcing method. In the proposed method, steel piles are inserted behind the breakwater and rubbles are filled between the caisson and the piles. The model caisson failed in sliding mode without this improvement method. When it was reinforced with steel walls and filling, the horizontal resistance of the model caisson improved effectively. The failure mode of the caisson changed from sliding mode to ground failure mode. By analyzing the bending moment of the steel wall, the stress distribution in the wall from the caisson via filling and the ground was obtained and failure surface of the ground can be estimated.

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