Abstract: By conducting a series of shear-torque-controlled (STC) and shear-displacement-controlled (SDC) ring shear tests under undrained conditions, the effects of cyclic loading frequency, shear displacement rate, and overconsolidation ...

Abstract: The shearing behavior of saturated silty soils has been examined extensively by performing undrained and partially drained (the upper drainage valve of the shear box was open during shearing) ring-shear tests on mixtures ...

Abstract: A displacement-based seismic discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) considers the influence of an earthquake by applying a time-dependent displacement constraint to simulate time-dependent ground movement of the base ...