Nevada Sand
Where do we obtain Nevada Sand?
Pyro Minerals, 2510 Wood Street, Oakland, CA 94607 510-839-3900 phone, 510-839-3090 fax
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