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On the Torsional Stiffness of Rigid Piers Embedded in Isotropic Elastic Soils

Selvadurai, APS
Professor and chairman of civil engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

Pages: 7    Published: Jan 1984

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Abstract

This paper develops an approximate expression for the torsional stiffness of a rigid cylindrical pier embedded in an isotropic elastic soil mass. The approximate solution is derived by considering the torsion of a hemispheroidal rigid inclusion embedded in bonded contact with an clastic medium. The expression for the torsional stiffness of the pier is expressed as a function of its length to diameter aspect ratio.