Presentation on Liquefaction under Static and Cyclic Loadings Directed to Evaulation of the Probability of Failure of Tailings Dams

Full list of publications

SLOPE STABILITY​​

• How to select the seismic coefficient
  
• Pros and cons of the analysis of slope stability by different methods (including 3D)
  
• Excerpt just on 3D effects.
  
• ​Excerpt just on Seepage Forces
  
• ​Technical note on normal stresses, seepage forces and pond pressures ...
  

selected publications

Robert Pyke, Consulting Engineer

Delta levees

See Chapter 5 and Appendices C,D and E of the Economic Sustainability Plan of the Delta Protection Commission

Slide show from talk to Water Education Foundation 

EVALUATION OF LIQUEFACTION POTENTIAL
Discussion of Youd et al (2001)

Discussion of Semple (2014) and Semple (2013)

Paper for 6ICEGE Christchurch NZ (2015)

​Slides for Christchurch presentation

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NONLINEAR SOIL PROPERTIES
Modulus reduction and damping curves - from EPRI (1993)

On nonlinear soil models - from NSF Workshop (2004)

Evaluation of  Uncertainties in Dynamic Properties - from 4ICEGE (2007)

Characterization of an alluvial silt and clay deposit for monotonic, cyclic, and post-cyclic behavior (2014)