Reference materials for PM4Silt

  • The following sections provide links or citations to PM4Silt reference materials.

Manuals

  • Boulanger, R. W., and Ziotopoulou, K. (2018). “PM4Silt (Version 1): A silt plasticity model for earthquake engineering applications.”  Report No. UCD/CGM-18/01, Center for Geotechnical Modeling, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA. [PDF available here]
  • Boulanger, R. W., and Ziotopoulou, K. (2022). “PM4Silt (Version 2): A silt plasticity model for earthquake engineering applications.”  Report No. UCD/CGM-22/03, Center for Geotechnical Modeling, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA. [Revised February 2023 - PDF available here]

Theory and implementation

  • Boulanger, R. W., and Ziotopoulou, K. (2019). “A constitutive model for clays and plastic silts in plane-strain earthquake engineering applications.” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 127(2019): 105832, 10.1016/j.soildyn.2019.105832.

Calibration procedures and modeling issues

  • Boulanger, R. W., and Wijewickreme, D. (2019). "Calibration of a constitutive model for the cyclic loading response of Fraser River Delta Silt." Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering for Protection and Development of Environment and Constructions: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, F. Silvestri and N. Moraci (eds), Associazione Geotecnica Italiana, Rome, Italy, ISBN 978-0-367-14328-2, 121-137. (PDF)
  • Boulanger, R. W., Price, A. B., and Ziotopoulou, K. (2018). "Constitutive modeling of the cyclic loading response of low plasticity fine-grained soils." GSIC 2018, Proceedings of GeoShanghai 2018 International Conference: Fundamentals of Soil Behaviours, A. Zhou et al. (Eds.), Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., pp. 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0125-4_1.
  • Boulanger, R. W., and Beaty, M. H. (2016). "Seismic deformation analyses of embankment dams: A reviewer's checklist." Proceedings, Celebrating the Value of Dams and Levees – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, 36th USSD Annual Meeting and Conference, United States Society on Dams, Denver, CO, 535-546. (PDF)

Analyses of case histories

  • Bassal, P. C., and Boulanger, R. W. (2023). "System response of an interlayered deposit with a localized graben deformation in the Northridge earthquake. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 165(2023): 107668, 10.1016/j.soildyn.2022.107668.
  • Bassal, P. C., Boulanger, R. W., and DeJong, J. T. (2022). "System response of an interlayered deposit with spatially distributed ground deformations in the Chi-Chi earthquake." Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 148(10): 05022004, 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0002869.
  • Bassal, P. C., Boulanger, R. W. (2021). "System response of an interlayered deposit with spatially preferential liquefaction manifestations." Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 147(12): 05021013, 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0002684.
  • Pretell, R. A., Ziotopoulou, K., and Davis, C. (2021). "Liquefaction and cyclic softening at Balboa Boulevard during the 1994 Northridge earthquake." ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 147(2). [doi]
  • Hutabarat, D., and Bray, J. D. (2019). "Effective stress analysis of liquefiable site in Christchurch to discern the characteristics of sediment ejecta." Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering for Protection and Development of Environment and Constructions, Silvestri and Moraci (eds), Associazione Geotecnica Italiana, Rome, Italy, 2923-2931.
  • Boulanger, R. W. (2019). “Nonlinear Dynamic Analyses of Austrian Dam in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 145(11): 05019011, 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0002156.
  • Boulanger, R. W., Munter, S. K., Krage, C. P., and DeJong, J. T. (2019). "Liquefaction evaluation of interbedded soil deposit: Çark Canal in 1999 M7.5 Kocaeli Earthquake." Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 145(9): 05019007,  /10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0002089.