High Overburden Stress Effects in Liquefaction Analyses
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A reevaluation is presented of two factors that can strongly affect the estimation of liquefaction resistance for clean sands under high effective overburden stresses the relation used to normalize penetration resistances to a of 1 atm (i.e., and the adjustment factor for the effects of on cyclic resistance ratio (i.e., These two factors have been investigated in a number of ways and several relations exist for each of them. An improved relation is developed based on cone penetration theory and validation against calibration chamber test data for both cone penetration and standard penetration tests. A relative state parameter index is shown to provide a consistent theoretical framework for interrelating the penetration and cyclic loading resistances. It is subsequently shown that the and relations are interrelated through the sand properties and relative density in ways that have compensating effects on the predicted cyclic resistance. The derived relations provide an improved representation of the effects of high levels, and reduce the conservatism that results when some established relations are extended to levels higher than they were calibrated for.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 129 • Issue 12 • December 2003
Pages: 1071 - 1082
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Received: Dec 27, 2001
Accepted: Jun 25, 2002
Published online: Nov 14, 2003
Published in print: Dec 2003
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