Innovative Economical Foundations with Improved Performance that is Less Sensitive to Site Conditions (NEES-2008-0565)

<p><strong>Title</strong>: Innovative Economical Foundations with Improved Performance that is Less Sensitive to Site Conditions (NEES-2009-0565)</p> <p><strong>Year Of Curation: </strong>2011</p> <p><strong>Description: </strong>This research project started with investigating innovative foundations that improve performance of bridges during earthquakes with behavior that is less sensitive to site conditions. The investigators considered a variety of foundation shapes and types, but rapidly converged to focus on rocking shallow spread foundations as an optimum target.</p> <p><strong>Award: </strong>http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0402490</p> <p><strong>PIs & CoPIs: </strong>Caltrans 59A0575</p> <p><strong>Dates: </strong>February 21, 2008 - December 01, 2011</p> <p><strong>Organizations: </strong>University of California, Davis, CA, United States</p> <p><strong>Facilities: </strong>University of California, Davis, CA, United States</p> <p><strong>Sponsor: </strong>Caltrans - 59A0575</p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> bridge, centrifuge, seismic performance</p> <p><strong>Publications: </strong><br /> "JDA01_DataReport"<br /> L. Deng, "INNOVATIVE ECONOMICAL FOUNDATIONS WITH IMPROVED PERFORMANCE THAT IS LESS SENSITIVE TO SITE CONDITIONS: CENTRIFUGE EXPERIMENTS AND OPENSEES ANALYSES"<br /> "Centrifuge Modeling of Bridge System with Rocking Footings"</p> <nb:citations></nb:citations>