Abstract: Loose sandy soil subject to undrained shearing manifests deviatoric strain softening, and such a behavior has been referred to as collapse, static liquefaction, or instability. This paper uses the term instability and ...

Abstract: The characteristic features of undrained behavior of a silty sand are investigated for a range of initial conditions (e,p′) for both isotropic consolidation (CIU) and K consolidation (KU). The silty sand contains approximately ...