Location
San Diego, California
Presentation Date
27 May 2010, 4:30 pm - 6:20 pm
Abstract
An experimental study based on Static Cone Penetration Tests (CPT) performed in Calibration Chamber (CC) and cyclic Simple Shear (SS) tests was undertaken in order to establish a correlation for estimating cyclic resistance ratio (CRR) of calcareous sands. CPT’s in CC were carried out on an uncemented calcareous sand, dug out from Brittany in France (Quiou sand) in the context of a previous research. Test results were thus re-analysed by the authors, considering the specific purposes of the paper. SS tests were conducted on specimens reconstituted by water sedimentation method that, according to the authors’ previous studies is capable of reproducing more realistically than other methods, the in-situ response of natural deposits of marine or fluvial origin. Test results showed that CRR vs. normalized cone penetration resistance (qc1,N) data points fall just above correlation curves, recommended in the literature for the assessment of liquefaction potential of clean silica sands. The approach based on relative state parameter concept embodied in current semi-empirical liquefaction correlations was also verified for the tested sand.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
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Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Porcino, Daniela and Marcianò, Vincenzo, "Evaluating Liquefaction Resistance of a Calcareous Sand Using the Cone Penetration Test" (2010). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 19.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/05icrageesd/session04/19
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Evaluating Liquefaction Resistance of a Calcareous Sand Using the Cone Penetration Test
San Diego, California
An experimental study based on Static Cone Penetration Tests (CPT) performed in Calibration Chamber (CC) and cyclic Simple Shear (SS) tests was undertaken in order to establish a correlation for estimating cyclic resistance ratio (CRR) of calcareous sands. CPT’s in CC were carried out on an uncemented calcareous sand, dug out from Brittany in France (Quiou sand) in the context of a previous research. Test results were thus re-analysed by the authors, considering the specific purposes of the paper. SS tests were conducted on specimens reconstituted by water sedimentation method that, according to the authors’ previous studies is capable of reproducing more realistically than other methods, the in-situ response of natural deposits of marine or fluvial origin. Test results showed that CRR vs. normalized cone penetration resistance (qc1,N) data points fall just above correlation curves, recommended in the literature for the assessment of liquefaction potential of clean silica sands. The approach based on relative state parameter concept embodied in current semi-empirical liquefaction correlations was also verified for the tested sand.
