Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Presentation Date
27 Apr 1981, 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Abstract
To investigate the dynamic properties of soils under earthquake loading conditions, a series of cyclic triaxial compression tests vas carried out on undisturbed saturated samples of cohesive soils from Tianjin. It has come to the conclusion that variation of damping ratio, as well as shear modulus, with strain amplitude may be expressed by an empirical formula. Its normalized form can be shown by a family of curves or a band zone with shrunken ends. New empirical equations used for evaluating elastic or initial shear modulus G0 and maximum shear stress τmax have been suggested. For the two parameters, some comparisons between field and laboratory test values and between the results of cyclic and static triaxial compression tests under conditions of the same loading levels have been made.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1981 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Hu, Wen-yao and Wang, Tian-long, "Shear Moduli and Damping of Cohesive Soils under Earthquake Loads" (1981). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 2.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/01icrageesd/session01/2
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Shear Moduli and Damping of Cohesive Soils under Earthquake Loads
St. Louis, Missouri
To investigate the dynamic properties of soils under earthquake loading conditions, a series of cyclic triaxial compression tests vas carried out on undisturbed saturated samples of cohesive soils from Tianjin. It has come to the conclusion that variation of damping ratio, as well as shear modulus, with strain amplitude may be expressed by an empirical formula. Its normalized form can be shown by a family of curves or a band zone with shrunken ends. New empirical equations used for evaluating elastic or initial shear modulus G0 and maximum shear stress τmax have been suggested. For the two parameters, some comparisons between field and laboratory test values and between the results of cyclic and static triaxial compression tests under conditions of the same loading levels have been made.
