Load Transfer Mechanisms between Underground Structure and Surrounding Ground: Evaluation of the Failure of the Daikai Station
- 1 December 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
- Vol. 131 (12), 1522-1533
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)1090-0241(2005)131:12(1522)
Abstract
The Daikai Station, a cut and cover structure in the subway system in Kobe, collapsed during the Hyogoken-Nambu earthquake of January 17, 1995 in Japan. The Daikai Station is the first well-documented underground structure not crossing an active fault that has completely collapsed during an earthquake without liquefaction of the surrounding soil. What makes this case even more interesting is that tunnel sections adjacent to the station, with similar structural characteristics and analogous soil conditions, did not collapse. Dynamic numerical analyses have been conducted to investigate the load transfer mechanisms between the underground structure and the surrounding soil and to identify the causes for different behavior of similar sections of the station subjected to the same seismic loading. A hysteretic nonlinear soil model has been used for the analysis. The model captures well the soil’s shear modulus degradation and the increase of damping with strain. The results from the analyses show that, for a g...Keywords
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