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A simplified procedure for evaluating soil liquefaction potential

Seed, H. Bolton; Idriss, I. M.

UCB/EERC-70/09, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1970-11, 38 pages (475/S411/1970)

This report describes a simplified procedure for evaluating liquefaction potential and compares 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.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/EERC/EERC-70-09.pdf (1 MB)