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Total Authors: 3
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| Affiliation: | [1] Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo - Brasil
[2] Universidade de São Paulo. Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos. Departamento de Geotecnia - Brasil
[3] Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”. Faculdade de Engenharia. Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Ambiental - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 3
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Soils and Rocks; v. 46, n. 1 2023-03-10. |
| Abstract | |
Abstract Maximum shear modulus (G0) has been used in various geotechnical jobs (e.g., seismic site assessment, machine vibration and pile driven). Laboratory and in situ determination of G0 is not a current practice in Brazil. G0 can be estimated from empirical correlations based on in situ tests like Standard Penetration Test (SPT) and Cone Penetration Test (CPT) in the preliminary design phase. Several empirical correlations to estimate G0 from SPT N value have been developed and are available in the literature. However, most of these correlations were established based on experience with well-behaved soils formed in temperate and glacial zones, which may not always be used for tropical soils. This paper assessed and discussed the applicability of some correlations for G0 estimative from SPT data in lateritic and saprolitic soils. The classical correlations for sedimentary soils underestimated G0 of tropical soils. After updating the database, the tropical soils correlations reasonably estimated G0 for the lateritic ones, which was not the case for the saprolitic soils. It was observed that differentiating the soils only as lateritic or saprolitic was not adequate for a good G0 estimate for the saprolitic sandy soils. It was found that only the lateritic soils correlation can be used with caution as a preliminary attempt to estimate G0 from SPT N value in soils with similar characteristics to the ones presented in this paper. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/17260-0 - Seismic DMT for site characterization of tropical soils |
| Grantee: | Heraldo Luiz Giacheti |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |