Constitutive Modeling of Peat in Dynamic Simulations

• Main Author: Yniesta, Samuel
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2016
• Subjects: Civil engineering; Earthquake; Geotechnical; Levee; Modeling; Peat; Sherman Island
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7j25282w; http://n2t.net/ark:/13030/m5ng9c02

Peat is a highly compressible organic material with unique properties that differ from inorganic mineral soils, which poses a challenge in their constitutive modeling. The main specific challenge addressed in this dissertation include matching dynamic properties (i.e., modulus reduction and damping...