Characterization of the contractive and pore pressure behavior of saturated sand deposits under seismic loading

Abstract This paper presents an identification technique to characterize the contractive and pore pressure behavior of loose sandy soils under seismic excitation. The technique relies on acceleration and pore pressure records provided during excitation by vertical arrays of accelerometers and pore pressure sensors. The technique employs non-parametric estimates of shear stresses and strains. A multi-surface plasticity approach is used to model the soil response. A reduced scale centrifuge model and a large scale experiment are used to demonstrate the capabilities of the developed technique. The technique allows for a more complete interpretation of the coupled shear–volume behavior of a soil deposit.

[1]  E. A. Subaida,et al.  Standardization of Test Procedure for Tension Test on Coir Yarns and Woven Coir Geotextiles , 2009 .

[2]  Izzat M. Idriss,et al.  NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR OF SOFT CLAYS DURING CYCLIC LOADING , 1978 .

[3]  S. Thevanayagam,et al.  Laminar Box System for 1-g Physical Modeling of Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading , 2009 .

[4]  Ender Jose Parra-Colmenares.  Numerical modeling of liquefaction and lateral ground deformation including cyclic mobility and dilation response in soil systems , 1996 .

[5]  Mladen Vucetic,et al.  Cyclic Characterization of Liquefiable Sands , 1993 .

[6]  Richard S. Ladd,et al.  Specimen Preparation and Cyclic Stability of Sands , 1977 .

[7]  S. Thevanayagam,et al.  Mechanics of Lateral Spreading Observed in a Full-Scale Shake Test , 2011 .

[8]  C. Tsigginos,et al.  A micromechanical analysis of the effect of fabric on low-strain stiffness of granular soils , 2015 .

[9]  F. Tatsuoka,et al.  Undrained Deformation and Liquefaction of Sand under Cyclic Stresses , 1975 .

[10]  A. Elgamal,et al.  Computational Model for Cyclic Mobility and Associated Shear Deformation , 2003 .

[11]  Waleed El-Sekelly,et al.  Shear Wave Velocity Measurement in the Centrifuge Using Bender Elements , 2014 .

[12]  A. Elgamal,et al.  Computational modeling of cyclic mobility and post-liquefaction site response , 2002 .

[13]  Dominic Assimaki,et al.  A Wavelet-based Seismogram Inversion Algorithm for the In Situ Characterization of Nonlinear Soil Behavior , 2009 .

[14]  Yu-Chen Wei,et al.  Boundary effects of a laminar container in centrifuge shaking table tests , 2012 .

[15]  Youssef M A Hashash,et al.  Learning of pore pressure response and dynamic soil behavior from downhole array measurements , 2014 .

[16]  A. Elgamal,et al.  Application of unconstrained optimization and sensitivity analysis to calibration of a soil constitutive model , 2003 .

[17]  Vincent P. Drnevich,et al.  Shear modulus and damping in soils , 1972 .

[18]  H. Bolton Seed,et al.  Closure of "Soil Liquefaction and Cyclic Mobility Evaluation for Level Ground during Earthquakes" , 1979 .

[19]  Ahmed-W. Elgamal,et al.  Analysis of Site Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading Using Centrifuge Testing Records , 1996 .

[20]  Youssef M A Hashash,et al.  A novel framework integrating downhole array data and site response analysis to extract dynamic soil behavior , 2008 .

[21]  Mourad Zeghal,et al.  Analysis of Site Liquefaction Using Earthquake Records , 1994 .

[22]  Fred H. Kulhawy,et al.  Stresses and Movements in Oroville Dam , 1972 .

[23]  Jean H. Prevost,et al.  A simple plasticity theory for frictional cohesionless soils , 1985 .

[24]  Waleed El-Sekelly,et al.  Identification of soil dynamic properties through an optimization analysis , 2015 .

[25]  Jamison H. Steidl,et al.  Inverse analysis of weak and strong motion downhole array data from the Mw7.0 Sanriku-Minami earthquake , 2007 .

[26]  Waleed El-Sekelly,et al.  The effect of seismic preshaking history on the liquefaction resistance of granular soil deposits , 2014 .

[27]  J. M. Duncan,et al.  Nonlinear Analysis of Stress and Strain in Soils , 1970 .

[28]  Youssef M A Hashash,et al.  Development of an inverse analysis framework for extracting dynamic soil behavior and pore pressure response from downhole array measurements , 2013 .

[29]  Zenon Mróz,et al.  On the description of anisotropic workhardening , 1967 .

[30]  Jamison H. Steidl,et al.  Attenuation and Velocity Structure for Site Response Analyses via Downhole Seismogram Inversion , 2006 .

[31]  S. Thevanayagam,et al.  Centrifuge and Large-Scale Modeling of Seismic Pore Pressures in Sands: Cyclic Strain Interpretation , 2013 .

[32]  F. Y. Yokel,et al.  Prediction of pore water pressure buildup and liquefaction of sands during earthquakes by the cyclic strain method , 1982 .

[33]  J. Chiou,et al.  Identification of dynamic soil properties through shaking table tests on a large saturated sand specimen in a laminar shear box , 2016 .

[34]  R. L. Kondner.  Hyperbolic Stress-Strain Response: Cohesive Soils , 1963 .

[35]  Chi-Chin Tsai,et al.  Learning of Dynamic Soil Behavior from Downhole Arrays , 2009 .

[36]  Majid T. Manzari,et al.  SIMPLE PLASTICITY SAND MODEL ACCOUNTING FOR FABRIC CHANGE EFFECTS , 2004 .

[37]  Wei Li,et al.  Site Amplification and Attenuation via Downhole Array Seismogram Inversion: A Comparative Study of the 2003 Miyagi-Oki Aftershock Sequence , 2008 .

[38]  Ahmed Elgamal,et al.  Lotung Downhole Array. II: Evaluation of Soil Nonlinear Properties , 1995 .

[39]  Ahmed Elgamal,et al.  Dynamic Soil Properties, Seismic Downhole Arrays and Applications in Practice , 2001 .