Abstract: This paper presents the results of vane shear, laboratory compaction, isotropic consolidation, cyclic triaxial, bender element, and resonant-column tests that were performed to characterize the dynamic properties of an ...

Abstract: Glyben is an artificial soil comprising bentonite mixed with glycerin that has been used recently in scaled model tests to study seismic soil structure interaction. In spite of recent interest in glyben, factors affecting ...