Different specimen preparation methods such as moist tamping, dry funnel deposition, slurry deposition, dry air pluviation have been reported in the literature to investigate the undrained behavior of silty sands. Similarly, different means have been used to densify the soils prepared with such methods. However, the influence of the densification...
This project report presents a laboratory investigation of the dynamic behavior of saturated alluvial silty soils from sites in Oregon and Washington. The focus of the study was to document the liquefaction susceptibility, post cyclic strength, and volumetric strain behavior of the silt soils based on cyclic, undrained triaxial compression...
Wood and wood-based composites are being used in either
new or more demanding applications. A means is needed to
successfully analyze new materials and to predict their long-term
performance. Two techniques, dynamic mechanical
analysis (DMA) and time-temperature superposition (TTS) offer
a means to accomplish this objective. The outcome of this...