The verification of relationships for effective stress method to evaluate liquefaction potential of saturated sands

The constitutive relationships proposed by Finn, Lee and Martin (1977) for the effective stress analysis of saturated sands during earthquakes are studied. The basic assumptions of their porewater pressure model appears to be well founded. There is a strong verification of a unique relationship betw...

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Main Author: Bhatia, Shobha K.
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24206