Proceedings of the NCEER Workshop on Evaluation of Liquefaction Resistance of Soils held at Inn at Temple Square Salt Lake City, Utah January 5-6, 1996 Edited by T. L. Youd! and I. M. Idriss? Publication Date: December 31, 1997 A.LT. LIBRARY Technical Report NCEER-97-0022 Task Number 112-D-4.2 nber DTFH61-92-C-00112 Engineering, Brigham Young of California at Davis ING RESEARCHTable of Contents Reports Summary Report... ea aie 1 By Workshop Participants Cyclic Liquefaction and Its Evaluation Based on the SPT and CPT. 41 By Peter K. Robertson and Catherine E. Wride Liquefaction Resistance Based on Shear Wave Velocity. sseatesnenneesesessteneesssaces BY By Ronald D. Andrus and Kenneth H. Stokoe Application of the Becker Penetration Test for Evaluating... oe ]29 the Liquefaction Potential of Gravelly Soils By Leslie F. Harder, Jr. Magnitude Scaling Factors... By T. Leslie Youd and Steven K. Noble Application of Ke and Ka Correction Factors. By Leslie F: Harder, Jr. and Ross Boulanger ach uating Liquetaction Resistance... n Statistical and Probabilistic Analyses ......... Noble ergy Content of Seismograms yen and James K. MitchellCyclic Liquefaction and its Evaluation ty based on the SPT and CPT P.K. Robertson and C.E. (Fear) Wride Geotechnical Group, University of Alberta i Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Abstract ‘Soil liquefaction is a major concem for structures constructed with or on sandy soils. This paper ‘describes the phenomena of soil liquefaction, provides suitable definitions, and provides an “update on methods to evaluate eyclic liquefaction using primarily the Standard Penetration Test ii the Cone Penetration Test (CPT). A new method is described to estimate grain directly from the CPT and to incorporate this into one of the methods for tanct ‘to cyclic Toading. A method is also described for correcting the results of of the 1996 NCEER workshop on soil liquefaction; a similar fiew to the Canadian Geotechnical Journal.