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Original Articles

Seismic uplift capacity of inclined strip anchors in sand using upper bound limit analysis

Pages 267-275 | Received 06 Jun 2008, Accepted 18 Feb 2010, Published online: 01 Dec 2010
 

Abstract

Pseudo-static approach is adopted in this paper to determine the seismic uplift capacity of an inclined strip anchor using upper bound limit analysis. Two different failure mechanisms are considered to obtain the magnitudes of unit weight component of uplift factor fγE for different values of soil friction angle, interface friction of anchor plate, anchor inclination, embedment ratio and horizontal seismic acceleration coefficient. The failure mechanism 1 consists of a triangular and quadrilateral rigid blocks; whereas the failure mechanism 2 comprises a logarithmic spiral failure zone with varied focus, sandwiched between a triangular and quadrilateral rigid blocks. It is observed that the magnitude of uplift factor fγE decreases significantly with the increase in seismic acceleration but increases with the increase in embedment ratio and roughness of the anchor surface. However, a mixed trend in the values of fγE can be observed for different inclination of the anchor, which is clearly discussed in this paper. The results are compared with the existing values in the literature and the significance of the present methodology for designing the inclined strip anchor is discussed.

Acknowledgement

The first author wants to acknowledge the partial financial support provided by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur to carry out the present work through a sponsored research project.

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