Effect of the shape of cyclic loading on damping ratio at small strains

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 111-120

  Vucetic, Mladen ^a   Lanzo, Giuseppe ^b   Doroudian, Macan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clay; Creep; Cyclic loading; Damping; Laboratory testing; Rate of deformation; Sand; Silt content; Simple shear test; Viscosity (IGC: D1 D7)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037977341     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.38.111     Document Type: Article

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