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A Simplified Procedure for Evaluating Soil Liquefaction Potential.

PB198009

Publication Date	1970
Personal Author	Seed, H. B.; Idriss, I. M.
Page Count	46
Abstract	Catastrophic failures in recent earthquakes have provided a sobering reminder that liquefaction of sandy soils as a result of earthquake ground shaking poses a major threat to the safety of civil engineering structures. Major landslides, lateral movements of bridge supports, settling and tilting of buildings, and failure of waterfront retaining structures have all been observed in recent years as a result of this phenomenon and efforts have been increasingly directed to the development of methods of evaluating the liquefaction potential of soil deposits. It is the purpose of the present paper to describe a simplified procedure for evaluating liquefaction potential and to compare the results obtained by the method with a number of cases in which liquefaction is known either to have occurred or not occurred in the field. (Author)
Keywords	Soils Earthquake resistant structures Liquefaction Sands Deposits Evaluation Failure Test methods Landslides Safety Soil deposits Liquefaction potential
Source Agency	National Science Foundation
NTIS Subject Category	50D - Soil & Rock Mechanics 50 - Civil Engineering
Corporate Authors	California Univ., Berkeley. Earthquake Engineering Research Center.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	197109

A Simplified Procedure for Evaluating Soil Liquefaction Potential.

A Simplified Procedure for Evaluating Soil Liquefaction Potential.
PB198009

Publication Date	1970
Personal Author	Seed, H. B.; Idriss, I. M.
Page Count	46
Abstract	Catastrophic failures in recent earthquakes have provided a sobering reminder that liquefaction of sandy soils as a result of earthquake ground shaking poses a major threat to the safety of civil engineering structures. Major landslides, lateral movements of bridge supports, settling and tilting of buildings, and failure of waterfront retaining structures have all been observed in recent years as a result of this phenomenon and efforts have been increasingly directed to the development of methods of evaluating the liquefaction potential of soil deposits. It is the purpose of the present paper to describe a simplified procedure for evaluating liquefaction potential and to compare the results obtained by the method with a number of cases in which liquefaction is known either to have occurred or not occurred in the field. (Author)
Keywords	Soils Earthquake resistant structures Liquefaction Sands Deposits Evaluation Failure Test methods Landslides Safety Soil deposits Liquefaction potential
Source Agency	National Science Foundation
NTIS Subject Category	50D - Soil & Rock Mechanics 50 - Civil Engineering
Corporate Authors	California Univ., Berkeley. Earthquake Engineering Research Center.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	197109