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Soils containing pumice are frequently encountered on engineering projects in the North Island of New Zealand. The presence of pumice is known to result in different material behaviours, including the resistance to cyclic loading. In this paper, results of triaxial testing on undisturbed specimens of dense, pumice-rich soils are presented, and examined to identify the apparent effects that differing pumice content has on the observed behaviours. It is shown that significant reductions in the cyclic resistance were observed in these soils compared with expectations for hard-grained materials, but that this effect appears to be fully developed with limited amounts of pumice in the soil. It is further shown that the undrained strength is significantly reduced by increasing amounts of pumice and that typical predictions of post-cyclic reconsolidation strains are unconservative in pumice bearing materials.
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This project was supported by QuakeCoRE, a New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission-funded Centre. This is QuakeCoRE publication number 0729. The author gratefully acknowledges the collaboration with A. Prof. Rolando Orense as well as the assistance of McMillan Drilling throughout the sampling phase of the project, as well as Dr S. Rees and Dr. M.B. Asadi during the fieldwork and laboratory work.
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Stringer, M. (2022). Response of Pumice-Rich Soils to Cyclic Loading. In: Wang, L., Zhang, JM., Wang, R. (eds) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Performance Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (Beijing 2022). PBD-IV 2022. Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering, vol 52. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11898-2_31
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