<p>The study of liquefaction potential of a place is of utmost importance regarding the safety of both life andproperty. Liquefaction of soil followed by earthquakes has always been a source of danger for the people living in the highly vulnerable seismic ...

<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 ...

<p>The evolutions of practices of seismic slope stability analysis of earth embankment/dam are discussed in this paper. The basic concepts of various methods, salient features, advantages and limitations of each of them are elucidate. Methods for both stability ...

Given that clay-rich landslides may become mobilized, leading to rapid mass movements (earthflows and debris flows), they pose critical problems in risk management worldwide. The most widely proposed mechanism leading to such flow-like movements is the increase ...

The 4 September 2010 Darfield and 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquakes caused significant damage to Christchurch and surrounding suburbs as a result of the widespread liquefaction and lateral spreading that occurred. Ground surveying-based field investigations ...

In Mid 2011, during the 2010-2012 Canterbury earthquake sequence, a site investigation programme was undertaken within the Christchurch CBD to characterise the engineering behaviour of the soils responsible for the observed ground performance. This paper presents ...

Following the magnitude 7.1 Greendale earthquake on 4 September, 2010 and the magnitude 6.3 Lyttelton aftershock on 22 February, 2011 (which caused severe damage to the Christchurch CBD, the Eastern and Southern suburbs, the Port Hills and Lyttelton), the ...

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 ...

A series of full scale tests have been undertaken to assess the performance of ground strengthening methods to improve seismic performance of liquefiable soils in the Christchurch area. The tests used sequences of explosive charges to simulate seismic shaking ...

This paper provides a comparison between the strong ground motions observed in the Christchurch central business district in the 4 September 2010 Mw7.1 Darfield, and 22 February 2011 Mw6.3 Christchurch earthquakes with those observed in Tokyo during the 11 ...