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Shaking table test on dynamic behaviours of tropical residual soils in Malaysia

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Studies on dynamic behaviours of tropical residual soils are still very limited in the current available literature. This paper mainly aims to investigate the dynamic properties (shear modulus and damping ratio) of two selected tropical residual soils (sandy silt and silty sand) in Malaysia under different overburden pressures. A series of shaking table tests were performed by applying 13 combinations of input shaking frequencies and lateral displacements. The measured acceleration data were subjected to baseline corrections and filtering processes. The results showed that the shaking table setup was capable of facilitating a considerably large strain level of deformation. The shear modulus increases proportionally with the confining pressure. Under the same confining pressure, shear modulus attenuates with the increase of strain amplitude. The shear modulus of sandy silt was consistently larger than that of silty sand. The damping ratios of the tested soils approximately range between 1% and 12%.

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  1. Dept. of Civil Engineering, Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Selangor, Malaysia

    Koo Kean Yong, Lim Jun Xian, Yang Chong Li, Lee Min Lee & Yasuo Tanaka

  2. State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection (Chengdu University of Technology), Chengdu, China

    Lee Min Lee & Zhao JianJun

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Yong, K.K., Xian, L.J., Li, Y.C. et al. Shaking table test on dynamic behaviours of tropical residual soils in Malaysia. KSCE J Civ Eng 21, 1735–1746 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12205-016-1856-8

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