This book describes recent developments in soil liquefaction engineering
and introduces more appropriate procedures than the current ones to
evaluate triggering and consequences of soil liquefaction during
earthquakes. The topics therefore cover all aspects of soil behaviour
following liquefaction during earthquakes. The contents start with new
approaches and new findings on characterisation of liquefaction
resistance and undrained shear strength of fully saturated, partially
saturated, and unsaturated sand, which are fully based on laboratory
tests. New approaches and findings are then described on the use of in
situ sounding tests for characterising triggering and consequences of
soil liquefaction, including post-liquefaction settlement, lateral
spreading, and stability against flow slide. All the topics are
accompanied by illustrative case history data from recent major
earthquakes in Japan.