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For the sake of comparison, the yield strength curve developed by Stark and Mesri<br />

provides residual strengths that are in good agreement with the results of the work by<br />

Baziar and Dobry (1995) and Ishihara (1996).<br />

Seed and Harder (1990) analyzed a number of case studies where liquefaction-induced<br />

slides had occurred and established a correlation between equivalent clean sand blow<br />

count, (N 1 ) 60 CS , and back-calculated residual shear strength (Figure 4.4). The calculated<br />

values of (N 1 ) 60 CS are slightly different than that of Stark and Mesri because of the<br />

different fines content correction recommended by Seed and Harder (Table 4.2). The<br />

residual strength values obtained by the Seed and Harder relationship are typically more<br />

conservative than those from Stark and Mesri, even when using the curve bounding the<br />

upper limit of the data in Figure 4.4.<br />

Figure 4.4: Relationship between Residual Strength and Corrected SPT Resistance<br />

(Seed and Harder 1990)<br />

Table 4.2: Recommended Fines Correction for Estimation of Residual Undrained Strength<br />

(Seed and Harder 1990)<br />

% FINES N corr (blows/30 cm)<br />

10 1.0<br />

25 2.0<br />

50 4.0<br />

75 5.0<br />

81

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