Cyclic softening of low-plasticity clay and its effect on seismic foundation performance

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1595-1608

  Chu, Daniel B ^a   Stewart, Jonathan P ^b   Boulanger, Ross W ^c   Lin, P S ^d  

^a Ninyo and Moore   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Davis   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Seismic effects; Shallow foundations; Soil liquefaction; Soil structure interaction; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); BUILDING MATERIALS; CLAY MINERALS; EARTHQUAKES; ELASTICITY; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FOUNDATIONS; LIQUEFACTION; PILES; PLASTICITY; PLASTICS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SEISMOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SOILS;

ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES; BEARING FAILURES; CAPACITY FAILURES; CONSISTENT; CYCLIC SHEAR; CYCLIC SOFTENING; DAMAGED AREAS; DIFFERENTIAL SETTLEMENTS; FACTORS OF SAFETIES; FIELD INVESTIGATIONS; FIELD PERFORMANCES; FOUNDATION PERFORMANCES; FOUNDATION SOILS; FREE FIELDS; GROUND FAILURES; GROUND RESPONSES; LABORATORY TESTS; PEAK ACCELERATIONS; REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES; SEISMIC; SEISMIC EFFECTS; SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS; SILTY CLAYS; SIMILAR ANALYSES; SMALL REGIONS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTION; STRENGTH LOSSES; SURFICIAL SOILS; TAIWAN;

SOIL LIQUEFACTION;

BEARING CAPACITY; CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; CLAY SOIL; FOUNDATION; GROUND SETTLEMENT; LIQUEFACTION; PLASTICITY; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 54249105873     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2008)134:11(1595)     Document Type: Article

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