Abstract: The damping associated with dynamic or statnamic tests has typically been over simplified to provide a “catch-all” factor for those responses that could not be fully accounted for using present analyses. This factor has ...

Abstract: This paper presents the results of nondestructive integrity tests (NDTs) and axial static load tests on drilled shafts constructed in varved clay at the National Geotechnical Experimentation Site in Amherst, Mass. The ...