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Geotechnical Surrogates For Sediment Shear Behavior In Southern Nevada, Rinu Ann Samuel
Geotechnical Surrogates For Sediment Shear Behavior In Southern Nevada, Rinu Ann Samuel
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The Nevada Department of Transportation design standards for deep foundations, particularly drilled shafts, in the Las Vegas Valley (LVV) may be overly conservative due to the challenges in characterizing strong but difficult-to-sample sediment strata, such as dense gravel, heavily cemented sediments, and mixed materials, which occur commonly in the LVV. Consequently, there is a need for investigating methods to assess the shear behavior of sediments that occur in the LVV in situ in working ranges of stress/strain, with the end goal of improving abilities to predict the capacity of drilled shafts in the LVV. To this end, global correlations of …