Abstract: An inexpensive and realistic procedure is developed for estimating the lateral dynamic stiffness and damping of flexible piles embedded in arbitrarily layered soil deposits. Starting point is the determination of the pile ...

Abstract: The paper presents a method to compute the effective dynamic stiffnesses

Abstract: The undrained behavior of saturated sand in monotonically loaded triaxial tests is discussed using steady state concepts. The relations among various drained and undrained strength envelopes are first examined. These ...

Abstract: A study on the influence of the plasticity index (PI) on the cyclic stress‐strain parameters of saturated soils needed for site‐response evaluations and seismic microzonation is presented. Ready‐to‐use charts are included, ...

Abstract: Eight centrifuge model experiments were conducted to investigate the mechanism of liquefaction-induced settlement of a shallow foundation, as well as the effectiveness of sand densification by vibrocompaction under the ...

Abstract: Cyclic lateral loading centrifuge tests were performed on a model of an embedded foundation to study its lateral response at various displacement levels up to ultimate lateral load capacity. The tests simulated a reinforced ...

Abstract: It has been observed that the application of cyclic shear loading to a dry sand and other cohesionless soils results in a progressive volume reduction and a relative density increase. Although this densification is larger ...

Abstract: A simple model is developed to obtain radiation damping coefficients of soil‐foundation systems, for both plane‐strain and axisymmetric loading conditions. Despite the simplifying assumptions made, the obtained closed‐form ...

Abstract: Laboratory and field evidence on residual shear strength, density, and penetration resistance of very loose, water-deposited silty sands and sandy silts capable of liquefying and developing large shear deformations is ...

Abstract: The paper explores the use of discrete element simulations to model granular soil response to monotonic and cyclic loading. Two‐ and three‐dimensional random arrays of quartz spheres of various diameters are used that ...