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Shaking Table Test of Scaled 1/5 EPS Embankment Model

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A large earthquake in the Kumamoto district in the south of Japan in April 2016 occurred twice within 28 h with a magnitude class 6.5. Due to this earthquake many houses and roads collapsed. In order to investigate the behavior of EPS embankments when a large-scale earthquake acts consecutively, an EPS embankment model with a scale of 1/5 was built and a shaking table experiment was conducted using the shaking table (3 m × 2 m) at the University of Tokyo. The EPS embankment was found to cause rocking phenomenon due to seismic motion. As a countermeasure, in addition to the effect of an improved Joint Metal Binder (JBM), the effect of applying a larger number of JMBs was also investigated.

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  1. Okasanlivic Co. Ltd, 1-8-27 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-0075, Japan

    Keiichi Taneichi & Takeharu Konami

  2. CPC, Inc, 4-40-11 Takadanobaba, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-0075, Japan

    Tsuyoshi Nishi & Tatsuro Kubota

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

    Junichi Koseki & Hiroyuki Kyokawa

  4. Institute for Global Change Adaptation Scienceicas (ICAS), Ibaraki University, 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito, Ibaraki, 310-8512, Japan

    Kazuya Yasuhara

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  1. Keiichi Taneichi
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Correspondence to Tatsuro Kubota .

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

    David Arellano

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Abdullah Tolga Özer

  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

    Steven Floyd Bartlett

  4. Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Oslo, Norway

    Jan Vaslestad

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Taneichi, K. et al. (2019). Shaking Table Test of Scaled 1/5 EPS Embankment Model. In: Arellano, D., Özer, A., Bartlett, S., Vaslestad, J. (eds) 5th International Conference on Geofoam Blocks in Construction Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78981-1_31

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