Jiang, Yusheng2019-09-192019-09-192019-09-18vt_gsexam:22241http://hdl.handle.net/10919/93765The Byrne (1991) model was developed to predict excess pore water pressure for saturated sands under cyclic loading. However, the model can also be used to predict seismic compression in dry or partially saturated clean sands, which is the focus of this research. The original Byrne (1991) model has two primary limitations. One limitation is that calibration coefficients for the model have only been developed for clean sand, while seismic compression is a concern for a variety of soil types in engineering practice. Another limitation is that the existing calibration coefficients are solely correlated with soil relative density. This is in contrast to findings from studies performed over the last two decades that show various environmental and compositional factors, in addition to relative density, influence seismic compression behavior. To overcome these shortcomings and others the model was transformed to allow it to be implemented in "simplified" and "non-simplified" manners and systematic model calibration procedures were developed by means of MATLAB code. Both "simplified" and "non-simplified" variants of the model are used to analyze a site in Japan impacted by the 2007, Mw6.6 Niigata-ken Chuetsu-oki earthquake. The results from the analyses are in general accord with the post-earthquake field observations and highlight the utility and versatility of the models.ETDIn CopyrightSeismic compressionByrne modelearthquakesettlementThesis