Abstract: A reevaluation is presented of two factors that can strongly affect the estimation of liquefaction resistance for clean sands under high effective overburden stresses

Abstract: The effect of an initial static shear stress on the undrained cyclic loading resistance of saturated sand, as observed in laboratory testing, is often expressed in terms of a correction factor,

Abstract: Corrugated plastic drainage tubing has been available in North America for only 15 years. It now represents 75% of the drainage pipe used in agriculture for subsurface drainage. Hydraulic tests are available for diameters ...

Abstract: A numerical study is presented of the effects of viscoplasticity on localization processes in sensitive, saturated clays and plastic silts. Numerical simulations of laboratory specimens of sensitive, viscoplastic soil ...

Abstract: Numerical simulations of a centrifuge test, in which dissipation patterns, lateral spreading, and shear strain localization were measured and recorded, are performed for validation of the numerical modeling approach and ...

Abstract: Two impact studies on a small span, composite girder highway bridge have given widely scattered impact fractions, with a maximum of 1.32, compared with the AASHTO code value of 0.30 for this bridge. Field strains were used ...

Abstract: A probabilistic version of the Idriss and Boulanger standard penetration test (SPT)–based liquefaction triggering correlation is derived using a maximum likelihood approach and an updated case history database. Measurement ...