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Percentage Silt Content in Sands and Its Effect on Liquefaction Potential
One of the most detrimental hazards caused by earthquakes is the ground failure resulting from sand liquefaction. Previous research effort in liquefaction potential has been focused on the liquefaction of saturated, uniform, clean sands under cyclic loading. However, natural sand deposits are rarely uniform and clean. Instead, soils found at previous liquefaction sites were either silty sand or sandy silt. This paper reports the result of the investigation on the effect of silt contents on the liquefaction potential of sands. More than seventy samples containing 0, 10, 30, 60 and 100 percent silt were subjected to undrained cyclic triaxial tests. The test results revealed that the increase in silt content strengthens the sandy soil.
Percentage Silt Content in Sands and Its Effect on Liquefaction Potential
One of the most detrimental hazards caused by earthquakes is the ground failure resulting from sand liquefaction. Previous research effort in liquefaction potential has been focused on the liquefaction of saturated, uniform, clean sands under cyclic loading. However, natural sand deposits are rarely uniform and clean. Instead, soils found at previous liquefaction sites were either silty sand or sandy silt. This paper reports the result of the investigation on the effect of silt contents on the liquefaction potential of sands. More than seventy samples containing 0, 10, 30, 60 and 100 percent silt were subjected to undrained cyclic triaxial tests. The test results revealed that the increase in silt content strengthens the sandy soil.
Percentage Silt Content in Sands and Its Effect on Liquefaction Potential
L. P. Kaufman (author)
1981
175 pages
Report
No indication
English
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