Boris Jeremic1
Member, ASCE,
James Putnam2 Member, ASCE,
Kallol Sett3 Student Member, ASCE,
Dana Humphrey4 Member, ASCE,
Stacey Patenaude5
The immediate goal of the presented work is the creation of a verified and validated elastic-plastic material model that will then be used in numerical assessment of seismic behavior of bridge abutments. The validation procedure will ultimately include simulations of two bridge abutments made of tire shreds performed using a large centrifuge facility at UC Davis.