Seismic Site Response Analysis with Pore Water Pressure Generation: Resources for Evaluation (2024) / Chapter Skim
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... 179 APPENDIX D-1 Sample Element Tests – Treasure Island Site Stress-Controlled Cyclic Direct Simple Shear Test on Medium Dense and Dense Sand General To conduct an element test, at a minimum, the following is required: (i) site characterization, including results of in-situ testing that can be correlated to a set of the initial Constitutive Model (CM)
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... 180 properties of the MDS, including results of CyDSS are not readily available. This is mostly due to the difficulty in sampling below groundwater elevation at depths exceeding 10 m.
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... 181 sampler into this material. Given that it was possible to push a thin-walled Pitcher sampler into this material, a possibility that this material behaves as an MDS was not initially dismissed.
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... 182 Geotechnical Laboratory as a part of a commercial project. The UCB unidirectional CyDSS was used for testing.
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... 185 Figure D-6. Comparison of Measured and Calculated ru for the TI Sand.
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... 186 above values in parentheses represent modification of the generic parameters at the end of iterative process; (2) More information about the input parameters is provided in Khosravifar et al.
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... 188 successive trial-and-error process to achieve closer match between measured and calculated. The initial and final input parameters are presented in Table D-4.
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... 189 Figure D-10. Element Test with PM4SAND – Comparison of Measured and Calculated Normalized Excess PWP Response.

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