Abstract
The embankement on tilted bedrock often suffers seismic damage in the previous strong earthquake, and the level of vertical seismic motion by the earthquake in recent years was powerful; however, there is few previous study on the effect of the vertical seismic response of the embankments. Based on the seismic response calculation results using a FEM code ‘FLIP’, the effect of vertical earthquake motion on seismic performance of embankments with tilted bedrock were examined in this study.
The results indicate that the effects of the phase characteristics of the input earthquake motion in both horizontal and vertical motion are significant.
