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An attempt has been made to study the behavior of nailed vertical excavations in medium dense to dense cohesionless soil under seismic conditions using a pseudo-dynamic approach. The effect of several parameters such as angle of internal friction of soil (ϕ), horizontal (k h) and vertical (k v) earthquake acceleration coefficients, amplification factor (f a), length of nails (L), angle of nail inclination (α) and vertical spacing of nails (S v) on the stability of nailed vertical excavations has been explored. The limit equilibrium method along with a planar failure surface is used to derive the formulation involved with the pseudo-dynamic approach, considering axial pullout of the installed nails. A comparison of the pseudo-static and pseudo-dynamic approaches has been established in order to explore the effectiveness of the pseudo-dynamic approach over pseudo-static analysis, since most of the seismic stability studies on nailed vertical excavations are based on the latter. The results are expressed in terms of the global factor of safety (FOS). Seismic stability, i.e., the FOS of nailed vertical excavations is found to decrease with increase in the horizontal and vertical earthquake forces. The present values of FOS are compared with those available in the literature.
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Sarangi, P., Ghosh, P. Seismic analysis of nailed vertical excavation using pseudo-dynamic approach. Earthq. Eng. Eng. Vib. 15, 621–631 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11803-016-0353-x
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