Research Initiation Award: Soil Liquefaction Potential Assessment Using the Seismic Cone Penetrometer

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9410361 Salgado Liquefaction of cohesion's soil deposits is one of the major sources of losses as a result of earthquake strong ground shaking. The objective of this project is to develop a new methodology for determining the resistance of soil to liquefaction, based on the fundamental dependence of liquefaction on soil state. The soil state at a given site is determined from the results of seismic cone penetration tests. Laboratory and field experiments, together with published and other available data, are used to validate the proposed methodology. This research project has the potential to advance the state of the art and the state of practice by improving the level of accuracy in the determination of the resistance of a soil deposit to liquefaction. This is a Research Initiation Award. ***