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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 44
ADVANCES IN BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHODS
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper V.6

Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction in Bridge Abutments

A. Martinez*, J. Mateo# and E. Alarcon*

*Department of Structural Mechanics and Industrial Constructions, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
#Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A. Martinez, J. Mateo, E. Alarcon, "Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction in Bridge Abutments", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Advances in Boundary Element Methods", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 135-143, 1996. doi:10.4203/ccp.44.5.6
Abstract
Strong motion obtained in instrumental short-span bridges show the importance of the abutments in the dynamic response of the whole structure. Many models have been used in order to take into account the influence of pier foundations although no reliable ones have been used to analyse the abutment performance. In this work three-dimensional Boundary Element models in frequency domain have been proposed and dimensionless dynamic stiffness of standard bridge abutments have been obtained.

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