Abstract: Finite strain consolidation theory is commonly used for the initial design and later reclamation of disposal facilities for highly compressible waste materials such as phosphatic clays, dredgings, and mine tailings. An ...

Abstract: Aging effects in sand, such as increases in cone penetration resistance with time after deposition and/or densification, are known to occur in the field, but the causes of these effects are not fully understood. A laboratory ...

Abstract: The cyclic liquefaction resistance of intact medium dense specimens of sands and silts obtained from offshore platform sites was compared to that of specimens reconstituted to the same values of shear wave velocity. The ...

Abstract: There is considerable uncertainty in the determination of effective stress strength parameters of cemented soils from undrained triaxial tests. Large negative excess pore pressures are generated at relatively large strains ...

Abstract: Characterizing the strength of weakly cemented and sensitive soils in the laboratory is difficult because of the difficulty in obtaining high-quality replicate samples necessary for defining the failure envelope. Multistage ...

Abstract: As an alternative to a field-based liquefaction resistance approach, cyclic triaxial tests with bender elements were used to develop a new correlation between cyclic resistance ratio (CRR) and overburden stress-corrected ...

Abstract: This paper presents an experimental investigation of the concept of effective density for the propagation of small-strain shear waves through saturated granular materials. Bender element tests and resonant column tests ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a new approach for incorporating the positive attributes of the small-strain shear wave velocity (VS), stress-based simplified procedure and the cyclic strain procedure into penetration test, stress-based ...