One of the most abundant energy sources exists in this world is the ocean wave energy. By
far, it has shown to be the most clean, renewable, predicted energy and has raised the …

Motivated by the need to explain the large displacement and rotation that numerous caisson-
type quay walls suffered in the port of Kobe during the devastating 1995 earthquake, a …

Reasonable estimation of the bearing capacity of bulbs is essential for the design of
squeezed branch pile (SBP) foundations, and existing analytical methods cannot be applied …

The effects of climate change on coastal areas are expected to significantly influence the risk
for port operations. In the present work, a novel methodology for the quantitative assessment …

A series of experiments have been carried out in the large wave flume (LWF) at Oregon
State University to quantify tsunami bore forces on structures. These tests included “offshore” …

Site amplification maps are mostly proxy-based. Often due to the absence of in-situ data at
the regional or local scale, a high level of confidence cannot be assigned to the site …

A key issue in the design of pile-supported structures on sloping ground is soil–pile
interaction, which becomes more complicated in case of dynamic loading. This study aimed …

Sands consisting of pumice particles are found in the northern part of the North Island of
New Zealand. These pumice sands are highly crushable, compressible, and lightweight due …

Traditionally, in the codes for seismic performance evaluation of pile-supported structures
(PSS), the piles are modeled using either a virtual fixed-point (VFP) method or a soil spring …

This paper experimentally studies the efficiency of a multi-task geosynthetic comprised of a
geogrid and a nonwoven geotextile layer in diminishing the required thickness of base …