Resistance of partly saturated sand to liquefaction with reference to longitudinal and shear wave velocities

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 93-104

  Tsukamoto, Yoshimichi ^a   Ishihara, Kenji ^a   Nakazawa, Hlroshi ^a   Kamada, Kunio ^a,b   Huang, Yongnan ^c  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Nippon Engineering Consultants Co   (Japan)

^c KISO JIBAN CONSULTANTS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyclic triaxial test; Liquefaction; Partial saturation; Primary wave velocity; Sandy soil (IGC: D7 E8)

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC LOADS; DYNAMIC LOADS; LIQUEFACTION; POISSON RATIO; SAND; SOILS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CYCLIC TRIAXIAL TESTS; PARTIAL SATURATION; PRIMARY WAVE VELOCITY; SANDY SOILS (IGC: D7/E8);

SHEAR WAVES;

EID: 2942694105     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.42.6_93     Document Type: Article

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