ON THE SIMILITUDE IN MODEL VIBRATION TESTS OF EARTH STRUCTURES.

Abstract

This paper presents a new similitude that may be used to investigate nonlinear vibration characteristics of earth and soil-structure systems. The proposed similitude assumes normal gravity field and the use of the same soils for both model and prototype, and involves the scaling of stresses and strains according to the strain-dependent nonlinearity of soils. The paper is presented in a form of abridged translation.