Probabilistic correlation between laboratory and field liquefaction potentials using relative state parameter index (ξR)

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1061-1072

  Jafarian, Y ^a   Sadeghi Abdollahi, A ^b   Vakili, R ^b   Baziar, M H ^b  

^a SEMNAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTING COEFFICIENT; ADJUSTMENT COEFFICIENT; BOUNDARY CURVES; CASE HISTORY; CONSERVATIVE LIMITS; CYCLIC RESISTANCE; CYCLIC TRIAXIAL TESTING; CYCLIC TRIAXIAL TESTS; FIELD CONDITIONS; IN-FIELD; LIQUEFACTION INITIATION; LIQUEFACTION POTENTIALS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION METHOD; PROBABILISTIC CRITERIA; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK; RECONSTITUTED SAMPLE; RESISTANCE RATIO; STATE PARAMETERS;

PROBABILITY; SLIP FORMING;

SOIL LIQUEFACTION;

DATABASE; LIQUEFACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAND; TRIAXIAL TEST;

EID: 77954758317     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2010.04.017     Document Type: Article

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