Soil Liquefaction
Abstract
Soil Liquefaction project provides knowledge on liquefaction of soils. Liquefaction can be defined as a process that creates a non-liquid phase to behave as per fluid dynamics. Soil liquefaction is when soil merely behaves like a liquid mass with hardly any shear strength rather than a solid mass. Liquefaction causes soil failures and, therefore, severe damages to structures supported on such grounds leading to significant economic losses. In this project liquefaction has been divided into two broad categories, these are liquefaction due to flow and liquefaction due to chemical processes in particular dispersive soils since structural failures attributed to dispersive soils have occurred in many countries worldwide as dispersive clay soils deflocculate and are rapidly eroded and carried away by water flow.
