A New Empirical Method to Predict Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Spread

2014-09-19
Hasancebi, Nilsun
ULUSAY, REŞAT
Çetin, Kemal Önder
Liquefaction-induced lateral spreading affects large areas and causes considerable damages to overlying structures and buried lifelines at shallow depths. In this study, the world-wide lateral spreading case studies compiled from literature and available records of some institutions were re-evaluated to assess the performance of the current empirical methods and to develop a new empirical method for predicting the magnitude of lateral spreading. The probability-based four empirical models were developed using the maximum likelihood methodology for predicting displacements of (a) a sloping ground, (b) a free face, of a ground (c) with and (d) without slope and free face, and their prediction performances were compared with those of the existing models.

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Citation Formats
N. Hasancebi, R. ULUSAY, and K. Ö. Çetin, “A New Empirical Method to Predict Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Spread,” 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42096.