This paper presents the results of cyclic and dynamic laboratory tests carried out on 79 soil samples from the Central Italy area most affected by the 2016–2017 seismic sequence.Results are firstly analysed in terms of field and laboratory values of small-strain shear wave velocity, highlighting the influence of the sample disturbance and of the mean effective consolidation pressure. The cyclic threshold shear strains as a function of plasticity index are then compared with findings from the published literature and the outliers are analysed. Subsequently, the dynamic soil behaviour is investigated with reference to the small-strain damping ratio. Differences between results from different tests are analysed in the light of the loading frequencies. Finally, the database is used to develop a predictive model for soil nonlinear curves according to plasticity index, mean effective confining stress, and loading frequency.
Dynamic characterization of fine-grained soils in Central Italy by laboratory testing / Ciancimino, Andrea; Lanzo, Giuseppe; Alleanza, Giorgio Andrea; Amoroso, Sara; Bardotti, Roberto; Biondi, Giovanni; Cascone, Ernesto; Castelli, Francesco; Di Giulio, Anita; d’Onofrio, Anna; Foti, Sebastiano; Lentini, Valentina; Madiai, Claudia; Vessia, Giovanna. - In: BULLETIN OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING. - ISSN 1570-761X. - ELETTRONICO. - (2019), pp. 0-0. [10.1007/s10518-019-00611-6]
Dynamic characterization of fine-grained soils in Central Italy by laboratory testing
Bardotti, Roberto;Madiai, Claudia;
2019
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This paper presents the results of cyclic and dynamic laboratory tests carried out on 79 soil samples from the Central Italy area most affected by the 2016–2017 seismic sequence.Results are firstly analysed in terms of field and laboratory values of small-strain shear wave velocity, highlighting the influence of the sample disturbance and of the mean effective consolidation pressure. The cyclic threshold shear strains as a function of plasticity index are then compared with findings from the published literature and the outliers are analysed. Subsequently, the dynamic soil behaviour is investigated with reference to the small-strain damping ratio. Differences between results from different tests are analysed in the light of the loading frequencies. Finally, the database is used to develop a predictive model for soil nonlinear curves according to plasticity index, mean effective confining stress, and loading frequency.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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