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Applicability of laboratory test procedures for measuring soil liquefaction characteristics under cyclic loading

Seed, H. Bolton; Peacock, William H.

UCB/EERC-70/08, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1970-11, 36 pages (475/S412/1970)

The purpose of this report is to evaluate the applicability of laboratory simple shear and triaxial compression tests for evaluating the liquefaction of saturated cohesionless soils under the idealized cyclic stress applications which are the conceptual simplification of field loading conditions during earthquakes.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/EERC/EERC-70-08.pdf (2 MB)