Datasets for liquefaction case studies of gravelly soils during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Yan-Guo Zhou; Peng Xia; Dao-Sheng Ling; Yun-Min Chen

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.106308

Datasets for liquefaction case studies of gravelly soils during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Data Brief. 2020 Sep 14:32:106308. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106308. eCollection 2020 Oct.

Authors

Yan-Guo Zhou¹, Peng Xia¹, Dao-Sheng Ling¹, Yun-Min Chen¹

Affiliation

¹ MOE Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Center for Hypergravity Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P. R. China.

Abstract

This Data in Brief article provides summarized information of the liquefaction case histories from the 12 May 2008 M _w7.9 Wenchuan earthquake. According to the data processing procedures recommended in the related research article, all eighty-one case histories investigated by the present authors and seven other case histories from the literature are carefully compiled. All necessary information and the mean and standard deviation for some key parameters are given for these liquefaction case histories (i.e., site name, site location, site inclination angle, liquefaction manifestations, critical layer, soil sampling information, ground motion, total and effective stresses, shear-mass participation parameter, cyclic stress ratio (CSR) for M _w=7.5, normalized shear wave velocity (V _s1), data class and field testing time). These data may be used by colleagues to study the effect of gravel content on liquefaction behaviour of gravelly soils and develop the corresponding deterministic or probabilistic methods for liquefaction triggering evaluation.

Keywords: Case histories; Gravelly soils; Shear wave velocity; Soil liquefaction; The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.