Mechanism of liquefaction response in sand-silt dynamic centrifuge tests

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-85

  Zeghal, Mourad ^a   Elgamal, Ahmed W ^b   Zeng, Xiangwu ^c   Arulmoli, Kandiah ^d  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d Earth Mechanics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrifuge testing; Earthquake engineering; Liquefaction; Sand; Soil dynamics; System identification

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC LOADS; EARTHQUAKES; SAND; SHEAR STRESS; SILT; SOIL TESTING; STIFFNESS; STRAIN; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

DYNAMIC CENTRIFUGE TESTS;

SOIL LIQUEFACTION;

CENTRIFUGE; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; LIQUEFACTION; SAND; SOIL DYNAMICS;

EID: 0033063204     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(98)00029-3     Document Type: Article

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