Soil-Structure Interaction for Building Structures

by NEHRP Consultants Joint Venture

The purpose of this project was to develop consensus guidance for implementing soil-structure interaction in response history analyses, and to identify areas of further research that were needed. The starting point for this work was decades of available soil-structure interaction research, and recently published engineering guidance for static analysis procedures. Soil-structure interaction (SSI) analysis evaluates the collective response of three linked the structure, the foundation, and the soil underlying and surrounding the foundation. Problems associated with practical application of SSI for building structures are rooted in a poor understanding of fundamental SSI principles. Implementation in practice is hindered by a literature that is difficult to understand, and codes and standards that contain limited guidance. This report represents an advancement in the state of SSI knowledge for practicing engineers. It provides a synthesis of the body of SSI literature, distilled into a concise narrative, and harmonized under a consistent set of variables and units. Techniques are described by which SSI phenomena can be simulated in engineering practice, and specific recommendations for modeling seismic soil-structure interaction effects on building structures are provided. The resulting recommendations are illustrated and tested, in detail, on realistic example buildings.

292 pages, Unknown Binding

Published September 1, 2012

Reviews

[Jaime Montoya · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very pragmatical approach to analyse the Soils Structure Interaction field by using two well detailed real cases. The engineering results are very useful and the recommendations are very clever.
By incorporated my novel inertia reduction concept , I will be able to incorporate the electromagnetic field and domain into the SSI field.