Location
San Diego, California
Presentation Date
29 Mar 2001, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Abstract
Since their introduction into Chinese building codes in the 1970’s, plasticity-based liquefaction criteria have provided a means for evaluating the liquefaction susceptibility of sands with clayey fines. These criteria are used to separate soils that may be considered non-liquefiable from those susceptible to liquefaction. The majority of the proposed criteria contain some minimum requirement regarding clay content and soil plasticity. The results of a parametric study into the effects of plastic fines content and plasticity on the liquefaction susceptibility of sandy soils were used to evaluate the accuracy of several of the more commonly used plasticity-based liquefaction criteria. Most of the proposed criteria were found to have conservative requirements in terms of soil plasticity. Soils meeting the plasticity criteria were found to have very different deformation characteristics under cyclic loading than those soils not meeting the criteria. However, all the criteria reviewed were also found to include other requirements which were not accurate predictors of liquefaction susceptibility. In light of these findings, recommendations are provided for a simplified plasticity-based liquefaction criteria.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2001 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
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Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Polito, Carmine, "Plasticity Based Liquefaction Criteria" (2001). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 25.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/04icrageesd/session01/25
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Plasticity Based Liquefaction Criteria
San Diego, California
Since their introduction into Chinese building codes in the 1970’s, plasticity-based liquefaction criteria have provided a means for evaluating the liquefaction susceptibility of sands with clayey fines. These criteria are used to separate soils that may be considered non-liquefiable from those susceptible to liquefaction. The majority of the proposed criteria contain some minimum requirement regarding clay content and soil plasticity. The results of a parametric study into the effects of plastic fines content and plasticity on the liquefaction susceptibility of sandy soils were used to evaluate the accuracy of several of the more commonly used plasticity-based liquefaction criteria. Most of the proposed criteria were found to have conservative requirements in terms of soil plasticity. Soils meeting the plasticity criteria were found to have very different deformation characteristics under cyclic loading than those soils not meeting the criteria. However, all the criteria reviewed were also found to include other requirements which were not accurate predictors of liquefaction susceptibility. In light of these findings, recommendations are provided for a simplified plasticity-based liquefaction criteria.
