Development of a Soil-Specific Liquefaction Assessment Framework: Role of Soil Gradation

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Assessment of liquefaction susceptibility and its consequences is a major part of geotechnical earthquake engineering. The practice relies on a case-history-based relation between in-situ penetration tests and cyclic response of soils. Apart from a poorly understood fines content correction, soils with different compositions and gradations and widely varied mechanical properties are essentially viewed as uniformly graded quartz sand. The existing methods would not have predicted liquefaction in almost any of the sites where liquefaction of widely graded gravelly soils resulted in widespread damage during the 2008 Wenchuan, China earthquake.