2008 Volume 60 Issue 6 Pages 561-564
This study aims to compile and comprehensively to compare the values of shear modulus of Toyoura sand evaluated in laboratory tests by several researchers using various techniques in Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), The University of Tokyo in the last 5 years. Triaxial Compression (TC) and Torsional Shear (TS) tests were performed to observe small strain cyclic loading where is known as static measurement. Meanwhile for dynamic measurement, independent tools of Trigger Accelerometer (TA), Bender Element (BE), or Plate Transducers (PT) was employed, that was attached to triaxial and torsional apparatuses as additional tools. By considering different researchers with various techniques (specimen sizes, densities, dry and saturated conditions, apparatuses), small strain measurements on Toyoura sand yielded the values of shear modulus with no significant scattered. However, the values of shear modulus obtained with trigger accelerometer methods resulted in about 30% higher than those with bender element and plate transducers methods. [This abstract is not included in the PDF]
