Where do we obtain Nevada Sand?

Data from laboratory tests

triaxial and torsional hollow cylinder tests Performed by Yie-Ruey Chen have been posted in the cgm binders at the following url:

http://cgmfileserver.ucdavis.edu//binders/Research/Soil%20Data/Nevada%20Sand/Yie-Ruey%20Chen%20Data/

This data is taken from Yie-Ruey Chen's, PhD thesis (Dept of Civil and Env. Engr., UC Davis) and the following report

Kutter, B.L., Chen, Y-R., and Shen, C.K. (1994) TRIAXIAL AND TORSIONAL SHEAR TEST RESULTS FOR

SAND Contract Report: CR 94.003-SHR, Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center, Port Hueneme, CA 93043- 4328, June, 1994

Chen PhD Thesis.pdf

Other Nevada Sand References are:

Cyclic Simple Shear Testing of Nevada Sand for PEER Center Project 2051999, UC Berkeley Geotechnical Engineering Report No. UCB/GT/00-01, by Kammerer, Wu, Pestana, Riemer, and Seed

KamarrerReport_UCB-GT-2000-01.pdf

Constant p' and Constant Volume Friction Angles Are Different, Kutter BL, Chen Y-R, ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal

to find this paper go to the following site and search for "Kutter Chen" http://www.astm.org/JOURNALS/GEOTECH/PAGES/234.htm

Undrained cyclic torsion shear tests of Nevada sand conducted by Seiji Kano at Hiroshima University (see file listed below)

Direct simple shear and triaxial tests of Nevada sand as part of (Velacs). Here are files for Nevada Sand Tests

Grain_Size_Distribution.pdf Max_and_Min_Density.pdf Permeability.pdf Specific_Gravity.pdf

Cyclic_and_Dynamic_Simple_Shear_Test.pdf Technical_Note_about_Methycellulose.pdf

Torsion shear tests : Kano_Liquefaction_Curve.zip