EARTHQUAKE STABILITY OF SLOPES OF COHESIONLESS SOILS

This article discusses the work of Seed and Goodman relating to the problem of designing a test to measure the strength of cohesionless material under low confining pressures, and questions whether their test, which involves sliding a plastic block of sand to obtain the shear strength, is best for the dynamic analysis of slopes.

• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  345 East 47th Street
  New York, NY  United States  10017-2398
• Discussers:
  • Bustamante, J I
• Publication Date: 1965-7

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 208-211
• Serial:
  • Journal of Soil Mechanics & Foundations Div
  • Volume: 91
  • Issue Number: SM4

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Earthquakes; Granular soils; Shear strength; Slope stability; Stability analysis
• Uncontrolled Terms: Sliding
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00095454
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Discussion
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 29 1975 12:00AM