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Cyclic simple shear testing of Nevada sand for PEER Center project 2051999

Kammerer, Ann Marie; Wu, Jiaer; Pestana, Juan M.; Riemer, Michael F.; Seed, Raymond B.

UCB/GT-2000-01, University of California, Berkeley, Geotechnical Engineering, 2000-01, PDF (22.2 MB) (475/K25/2000)

The simple shear testing series described in this report was conducted as part of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center's "G2" program. It consists of tests performed on Nevada sand with a variety of densities, vertical stresses, cyclic stress ratios, and K ratios using the U.C. Berkeley bi-directional simple shear device. The goal of the program is the development of constitutive models useful for predicting displacements of liquefiable soils under seismic loading.

Available online: http://library.eerc.berkeley.edu/documents/GEOTECH/UCB-GT-2000-01.pdf