Abstract: A series of one-eighth-scale strain controlled model pressuremeter tests were performed using an automated flexible wall calibration chamber testing system. Undrained model pressuremeter tests were performed with and without ...

Abstract: The San Francisco waterfront was constructed between 1850 to 1920 by placing fill along the San Francisco Bay. The fills, reaching thicknesses of up to 40 ft (12 m), consist primarily of dune sand, rock fragments, bay mud, ...

Abstract: TWO probabilistic models are proposed to study the development of pore pressure in saturated sands under random loading. The first of these is based on laboratory data, while the second uses an analytically based effective ...