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Stiffness of clays and silts: Modeling considerations

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Abstract

A large database has recently been published that details the development of new empirical expressions for the stiffness reduction with strain of clays and silts. In this note, the same database is used to examine two major considerations for engineers using these expressions in numerical analyses: the transformation from secant to tangent stiffness and the effect of stress history. (C) 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers.

Original languageEnglish
Article number06014004
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering - ASCE
Volume140
Issue number6
Early online date14 Mar 2014
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2014

Keywords

  • Stiffness
  • Clays
  • Silts
  • Design
  • Deformations
  • Modeling
  • Statistical analysis

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    Vardanega, P. J., & Bolton, M. (2014). Stiffness of clays and silts: Modeling considerations. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 140(6), [06014004]. 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001104. This material may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

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    • Stiffness of clays and silts: Normalizing shear modulus and shear strain

      Vardanega, P. J. & Bolton, M. D., 9 Sept 2013, In: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering - ASCE. 139, 9, p. 1575-1589 15 p.

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    • Practical methods to estimate the non-linear shear stiffness of fine grained soils

      Vardanega, P. J. & Bolton, M., Sept 2011, Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, IS-Seoul 2011, 1-3 September 2011, Seoul, Korea. Chung, C.-K., Kim, H.-K., Lee, J.-S., Jung, Y.-H. & Kim, D.-S. (eds.). Netherlands: IOS Press, Vol. 1. p. 372-379 8 p.

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