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JOURNAL OF GEOTECHNICAL AND GEOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Volume 132, Issue 9, Pages 1165-1177Publisher
ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2006)132:9(1165)
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Observations from recent earthquakes and the results of cyclic tests indicate that the Chinese criteria are not reliable for determining the liquefaction susceptibility of fine-grained soils. Fine-grained soils that liquefied during the 1994 Northridge, 1999 Kocaeli, and 1999 Chi-Chi earthquakes often did not meet the clay-size criterion of the Chinese criteria. Cyclic testing of a wide range of soils found to liquefy in Adapazari during the Kocaeli earthquake confirmed that these fine-grained soils were susceptible to liquefaction. It is not the amount of clay-size particles in the soil; rather, it is the amount and type of clay minerals in the soil that best indicate liquefaction susceptibility. Thus plasticity index (PI) is a better indicator of liquefaction susceptibility. Loose soils with PI < 12 and w(c)/LL > 0.85 were susceptible to liquefaction, and loose soils with 12 < Pl < 18 and w(c)/LL > 0.8 were systematically more resistant to liquefaction. Soils with PI > 18 tested at low effective confining stresses were not susceptible to liquefaction. Additionally, the results of the cyclic testing program provide insights regarding the effects of confining pressure, initial static shear stress, and stress-path on the liquefaction of fine-grained soils.
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