Vibration effects of earthquakes on soils and foundations : a symposium presented at the seventy-first annual meeting American Society for Testing and Materials, San Francisco, Calif., 23-28 June, 1968.

Presented at the 71st annual meeting, American Society for Testing and Materials and sponsored by Subcommittee 9 on Dynamic Properties of Soils, of Committee D-18.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Strength and Stress-Strain Characteristics of Clays Subjected to Seismic Loading Conditions -- Laboratory Simulation of Seismic Activity in Saturated Sands -- Factors Affecting the Cyclic Loading Strength of Soil Nonlinear Dynamic Response of Soft Clay -- Torsional Shear Testing Technique for Dynamic Properties of Clay -- Soil Studies for Seismic Design of San Francisco Transbay Tube -- Case Histories in Foundation Vibrations -- Vertical Vibration of a Rigid Foundation Resting on Sand -- Stress-Strain Behavior of Clays in Dynamic Compression

The papers in this volume were presented at the two-session Symposium on Vibration Effects of Earthquakes on Soils and Foundations held on 25 June 1968 during the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society at San Francisco, Calif. The Symposium was sponsored by Subcommittee 9 on Dynamic Properties of Soils, of Committee D-18. Chairman of the Symposium was E. T. Selig, associate professor of engineering and applied sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo. Co-chairman was Delon Hampton, professor of civil engineering, Howard University. -- Foreword

English.

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