State of the Art and Practice in the Assessment of Earthquake-Induced Soil Liquefaction and Its Consequences

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Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2022.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Front Matter
  • Summary
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 A Primer on Earthquake-Induced Soil Liquefaction
  • 3 Case Histories
  • 4 The Simplified Stress-Based Approach to Triggering Assessment
  • 5 Alternative Approaches to Liquefaction Triggering Assessment
  • 6 Residual Shear Strength of Liquefied Soil
  • 7 Empirical and Semiempirical Methods for Evaluating Liquefaction Consequences
  • 8 Use of Computational Mechanics to Predict Liquefaction and Its Consequences
  • 9 Performance-Based Evaluation and Design
  • 10 Recommendations
  • References
  • Appendixes
  • Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
  • Appendix B: Meeting Agendas and Workshop Participants
  • Appendix C: Histograms (or parameter distributions) of Recent Liquefaction Triggering Databases
  • Appendix D: General Description of Performance-Based Design
  • Appendix E: Glossary