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Shannon Hsien-Heng Lee This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.1, Jin-Hwa Huang1, Budijanto Widjaja2 and Der-Wen Chang3

1Department of Construction Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan 106, R.O.C.
2Department of Civil Engineering, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung 40141, Indonesia
3Department of Civil Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan 251, R.O.C.


 

Received: November 12, 2012
Accepted: February 19, 2013
Publication Date: March 1, 2013

Download Citation: ||https://doi.org/10.6180/jase.2013.16.1.03  


ABSTRACT


Research on liquefaction is an interesting endeavor. Many scholars believe that the main trigger of liquefaction under earthquake is the change of pore water pressure inside soil. Others proposed the variation of soils from plastic to liquid state under static condition due to water content changing, and mudflow is then happen. The limit of both states is called the liquid limit. The current paper aims to demonstrate the concept of both states.


Keywords: Liquefaction, Liquid Limit, Viscosity, Earthquake, Mudflow


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