Abstract: The undrained strength of saturated cohesive soils after cyclic loading decreases and increases depending on whether the soil is initially normally consolidated or overconsolidated and whether drainage is included during ...

Abstract: This paper outlines methods for predicting changes in the undrained secant modulus for saturated clays after cyclic loading, but prior to the dissipation of cyclically induced excess pore pressures. The equations are ...

Abstract: It is known that the mechanical properties of low-plasticity silt are similar to those of sand, and yet silts are frequently used as coastal reclamation materials in many cities and industrial areas and will thus be ...

Abstract: Low plasticity silts are liquefiable and the dissipation of pore pressures after an earthquake will be accompanied by densification and compression of the soil skeleton. Anisotropic rather than isotropic stress distributions ...

Abstract: The possibility of constructing a floating island using air/cement/water (ACW), a mixture of water glass solution and foamed cement paste, which shows a flash-setting property and is lighter than water, is studied. The ...

Abstract: Results are presented from a series of one‐way cyclic undrained triaxial tests on Ariake clay, a highly plastic, normally consolidated marine clay from Kyushu in southwest Japan. Considering first pore water pressures ...

Abstract: Stress-controlled undrained cyclic triaxial tests followed by strain-controlled monotonic compressive shear tests were carried out on normally consolidated and overconsolidated reconstituted Keuper Marl silt to investigate ...