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In-place calibration of USGS pore pressure transducers at Wildlife Liquefaction Site, California, USA

Hushmand, Behnam and Scott, Ronald F. and Crouse, C. B. (1992) In-place calibration of USGS pore pressure transducers at Wildlife Liquefaction Site, California, USA. In: Proceedings of the Tenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. A. A. Balkema , Rotterdam, pp. 1263-1268. ISBN 90-5410-060-5. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20141020-145346596

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Abstract

Acceleration and pore-pressure data were recorded at the Wildlife Site during the magnitude 6.6 Imperial Valley earthquake of 24 November 1987 which resulted in liquefaction of the site, alone among instrumented sites. Some unusual aspects were observed in the data, including long rise times of the pore pressures resulting in a time lag between the strong ground shaking and maximum pore pressure development. It was not clear from the data obtained whether the liquefaction process at the Wildlife Site was different from that observed in other saturated sand deposits, or if the pore-pressure transducers were not responding correctly. In December 1989, the authors performed an in-situ dynamic calibration of the USGS piezometers installed at the Wildlife Site with respect to reference pore-pressure transducers showing that only one of the transducers was performing nearly correctly. Several hypotheses have been examined to explain the data recorded during the earthquake, including particularly transducer malfunction due to air bubbles in the transducer chambers.


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Additional Information:© 1992 Balkema. This investigation was supported by Grant No. 14-08-0001-G 1711 from the United States Geological Survey (USGS). We wish to thank Dr. Tom Holzer and Mr. Ronald Porcella of the USGS for their support in completing this work. Special thanks are also due to Dr. Dennis Ostrom from the Southern California Edison Company for his contribution in performing the popper tests.
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