Sentence examples for stiff soil from inspiring English sources

Biaxial horizontal site response analyses are also performed for the stiff soil site using LS-DYNA.

SSI effects are significant for soft soil conditions and negligible for stiff soil conditions.

The results for soft soils are compared with experimental and theoretical results for a stiff soil.

This study presents an analysis of the displacement interaction among general configurations of energy piles bearing on stiff soil strata that are subjected to thermal loads.

The fragility curves are estimated in terms of peak ground acceleration at a rock or stiff soil outcrop, based on the evolution of damage with increasing earthquake intensity.

The chalk bed is characterised by varying degrees of weathering leading to significant variation in properties ranging from those typical for stiff soil to soft rock.

This system is particularly efficient on stiff soils with deep groundwater table, conditions usually found in Santiago.

Soils are classified into four categories as soft soils, stiff soils, dense soils/soft rock and hard rock based on the obtained shear wave velocities.

In this context, size and shape effects for trenches excavated in stiff soils and rocks, are numerically investigated, through experimentally-calibrated parametric analyses.

The analytical results are illustrated with numerical examples in which the spherical source suspended at the center of a water-filled borehole embedded within water-saturated soils of distinct frame properties (i.e., soft or stiff soils), is excited in vibrational modes of various orders.

An ensemble of recent earthquake records recorded on stiff soils, and a variety of degrading MDOF structures that cover a wide range of fundamental periods of vibrations, first-mode yield force values, and levels of degradation were considered in the study.