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    This document discusses soil liquefaction. It defines liquefaction as the transformation of a granular material from a solid to liquid state due to increased pore water pressure. Loose saturated granular soils like sand and gravel are most susceptible. Liquefaction can occur if pore pressures increase to equal confining pressures during earthquakes, causing soils to lose strength. This can result in sand boils or quicksand formation. Proper study of liquefaction is important for preventing structural damage and loss of life during earthquakes.

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    This document discusses soil liquefaction. It defines liquefaction as the transformation of a granular material from a solid to liquid state due to increased pore water pressure. Loose saturated granular soils like sand and gravel are most susceptible. Liquefaction can occur if pore pressures increase to equal confining pressures during earthquakes, causing soils to lose strength. This can result in sand boils or quicksand formation. Proper study of liquefaction is important for preventing structural damage and loss of life during earthquakes.

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    This document discusses soil liquefaction. It defines liquefaction as the transformation of a granular material from a solid to liquid state due to increased pore water pressure. Loose saturated granular soils like sand and gravel are most susceptible. Liquefaction can occur if pore pressures increase to equal confining pressures during earthquakes, causing soils to lose strength. This can result in sand boils or quicksand formation. Proper study of liquefaction is important for preventing structural damage and loss of life during earthquakes.

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    This document discusses soil liquefaction. It defines liquefaction as the transformation of a granular material from a solid to liquid state due to increased pore water pressure. Loose saturated granular soils like sand and gravel are most susceptible. Liquefaction can occur if pore pressures increase to equal confining pressures during earthquakes, causing soils to lose strength. This can result in sand boils or quicksand formation. Proper study of liquefaction is important for preventing structural damage and loss of life during earthquakes.

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    SOIL

    LIQUEFACTION
    Cristian Camilo Daz Quevedo
    Civil Engineering
    6-B
    2166272

    WHICH IT IS SOIL LIQUEFACTION?

    Liquefaction is defined as
    the transformation of a
    granular material from a
    solid state to a liquefied
    state as a result of
    increased
    pore
    water
    pressure.

    It is more likely to occur in


    loose liquefaction saturated
    or unsaturated moderately
    granular soils with poor,
    such
    as
    sedimented
    drainage sand or sand and
    gravel containing sediments
    waterproof seams.

    LIQUEFACTION PROCESS
    EARTH

    CONDITION OF SOIL TO BE
    LIQUEFIABLE

    Seed and Idriss (1982) considers


    that a soil can liquefy if:

    The percentage by weight of particles


    <0.005 mm is less than 15%
    LL <35
    w / LL> 0.9
    This criterion was known as Chinese
    criterion.

    Studies of seismic liquefaction


    Seed (1966) led to the following
    conditions apply:

    If
    pore
    pressure
    induced
    dynamic or cyclic action of the
    earthquake reaches the value of
    the confining pressure, soil reach
    its initial liquefaction
    If sand subjected to cyclic action
    reaches 20% strain is reached
    the total liquefaction.

    CALCULATION

    The
    limited
    knowledge
    on
    this
    phenomenon is due largely to two
    factors:

    Difficulty
    in
    observing
    their
    characteristics under real conditions.

    Complexity of the phenomenon, for


    besides being the result of a seismic
    action highly variable nature, induced
    in the ground a strongly nonlinear and
    hysteretic behavior, with strong
    degradation
    of
    mechanical
    soil
    characteristics of each particular
    cycle generating pressures neutral in
    the sample under seismic action.

    STUDY

    Earthquake-induced liquefaction is one


    of the major contributors to urban
    seismic
    risk.
    The
    shocks
    cause
    increased water pressure in the pores
    which reduces the effective stress, and
    therefore decreases the shear strength
    of the sand. If a crust of dry soil or
    waterproof covering, excess water may
    sometimes arise on the surface through
    cracks in the top layer, dragging the
    liquified sand process, resulting sand
    boils, commonly called "volcanoes of
    sand".

    LIQUEFACTION INDUCED
    EARTHQUAKE

    Quicksand they occur when an


    area of loose sand that is
    saturated with water is stirred.
    When the water is trapped in
    the block of sand can not
    escape, the ground liquefies
    and loses its ability to support
    weights. Quicksand can be
    formed by a rising flow of
    groundwater (as it comes from a
    natural spring), or because of
    earthquakes.

    QUICKSAND

    Calls quicks clays fast or


    marine
    clays,
    is
    a
    particularly highly sensitive
    type of clay which, when
    disturbed has the tendency
    to change their status from
    a relatively rigid to a liquid
    state. At rest, the quick
    clays look a hypersaturated
    gel.

    QUICK CLAYS

    They
    consist
    of
    displacement saturated by
    water flowing into the
    deep sea sediments. An
    example
    of
    this
    phenomenon
    occurred
    during the Grand Banks
    earthquake
    of
    1929
    occurred
    on
    the
    continental shelf off the
    coast of Newfoundland.

    TURBIDITY CURRENTS

    It involves filling out a crossword puzzle of


    two people having a time between 10 to 20
    minutes, it is recommended not copied
    from another, and to let them see will not
    be able to compete.

    Your partnerisfoundat his side,on the


    right side.

    ACTIVITY

    The greatest situations in which these phenomena occur are


    earthquakes, such phenomena charge many structural damage and in
    cases where no provision may be up human casualties , so you need
    to have more stuff in the study of this phenomenon . The construction
    of buildings on land of low cohesion provide the conditions for this
    phenomenon , before this more complete intervention is required
    because if it is determined that land are most useful for building could
    potentially prevent this effect caused by earthquakes, which are not
    always resulting in immediate catastrophe and is very fast but on
    many roads or buildings of great magnitude is presented constantly by
    the force exerted by the weight of these ways .

    CONCLUSIN

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