<p>A site in Ch&acirc;teauguay, south of Montr&eacute;al, Qu&eacute;bec, Canada, was investigated as part of the design of a significant infrastructure project. A loose marine silt layer present at the site was found to be susceptible to liquefaction using ...

The Waikato Expressway is being constructed in a number of sections. Opus has been involved in the scheme assessment and specimen design stages for the Hamilton and Cambridge Bypass sections and is currently part of the alliance team constructing the Te Rapa ...

It is well known that the foundations of the Leaning Tower of Pisa were stabilised using the method of underexcavation to reduce the southward inclination of the Tower by about 10 percent in combination with controlling the seasonally fluctuating water ...

<p>The purpose of the study described herein was to develop rational guidelines and analytical procedures for evaluating the potential for liquefaction or cyclic failure of low-plasticity silts and clays during earthquake loading.</p>

Contrary to many laboratory investigations, common empirical correlations from in situ tests consider that the increase in the percentage of fines leads to an increase of the cyclic liquefaction resistance of sands. This paper draws upon the integrated Critical ...

This paper analyses the effect of fines content f(%) on cyclic liquefaction resistance in a Critical State Soil Mechanics context.

<p>No guidelines are available for evaluating the liquefaction potential of silt-clay mixtures during an earthquake, based on their simple property i.e. density, void ratio, plasticity index, and standard penetration values. The liquefaction behavior of these ...

The hyperbolic stress-strain model has been shown to be valid for modeling the nonlinear stress-strain hehavior of soils prior to failure in soil-structure interaction. However, guidelines for selecting hyperbolic stress-strain pa­rameters for silts have not ...

<p>Laboratory undrained cyclic shear behavior of silts has been studied by means of undrained cyclic stress - controlled ring shear tests. The dynamic behavior of silty soils on predetermined sliding surfaces in slopes with different gradients and various ...