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From the collected SCPTu data, the layering and soil types can be evaluated to detect soils that are<br />

prone to liquefaction (i.e., sands, silty sands) using various soil behavioral classification charts, such as<br />

proposed by Robertson (1990). Soil layers susceptible to liquefaction are further analyzed for their<br />

liquefaction potential corresponding to certain magnitude earthquakes.<br />

In liquefaction analyses, the seismic loading expressed in terms of the cyclic stress ratio (CSR) can be<br />

given as (Seed & Idriss, 1971):<br />

(3)<br />

where a max is the peak ground acceleration (PGA), g is the acceleration of gravity, a vQ and

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