Mitigation of liquefaction potential of silty sands

Proceedings of From Research to Practice in Geotechnical Engineering Congress 2008 - From Research to Practice in Geotechnical Engineering

Volumn 325, Issue , 2008, Pages 433-451

  Mitchell, James K ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Improvement; Liquefaction; Methods; Mitigation; Sands; Silty

Indexed keywords

CLAYEY SOILS; COHESIONLESS SOIL; DEEP DYNAMIC COMPACTIONS; DEEP SOIL MIXING; DYNAMIC DENSIFICATION; EXPLOSIVE COMPACTIONS; FINES CONTENT; IMPROVEMENT; JET GROUTING; LIQUEFACTION POTENTIALS; LIQUEFIED SOILS; METHODS; MITIGATION; OPEN EXCAVATIONS; PERMEATION GROUTING; ROLLER COMPACTED CONCRETES; SILTY; SILTY SANDS; SILTY SOILS; SOIL-CEMENT COLUMN; VIBRO-COMPACTION;

COMPACTION; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONCRETE MIXING; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; GROUTING; MORTAR; REINFORCEMENT; RESEARCH; SAND; SOIL CEMENT; SOILS; STABILIZATION;

SOIL LIQUEFACTION;

EID: 66449096647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40962(325)15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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