| Abstract: | A new simplified method is presented to evaluate seismic liquefaction potential of subsoils of buildings. Based on a review of the limited number of publications so far available, dealing with the related theme, the authors have devised the method in such a way that it is simple to handle and has clear physical insight and sufficient engineering accuracy, by taking advantage of Seed's simplified method for free ground sites and of the cone model concept well developed by Meek and Wolf in dynamics in recent years as well as by some American and German scholars in soil statics early since the 1930s. A simple example showed the reasonableness and tendency in good accord with the results of small model tests and of finite element analyses. Therefore, it would have a broad prospect of engineering application. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
