• Muhammad Dilawar Bhat
• Mohmad Mohsin Thakur
• Mujeeb Ul Rehman

Liquefaction of soil during earthquakes results in catastrophic damages to life and property. The deformations of soil during earthquakes pose a serious risk to the stability of structures. Niigata earthquake in Japan and the Bhuj earthquake in India incurred large scale damage to the buildings and dams. It is essential to evaluate the resistance of soils to liquefaction. This paper deals with understanding the process of liquefaction and estimating the liquefaction potential of soils by various laboratory tests and empirical approaches. The undrained behaviour of soils in cyclic shearing is explained with the help of cyclic triaxial testing and cyclic direct simple shear test. The results of the cyclic direct simple shear test conducted on loose Fraser river sand in Vancouver, Canada are discussed in this paper. The empirical approach developed in 1996 NCEER and 1998 NCEER/NSF workshops to determine the liquefaction potential of soils is presented. This empirical approach is a simplified procedure based on field tests which can be used in practice to evaluate the liquefaction potential of soils.

"Evaluation of Liquefaction Potential of Soils - A Review", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.942-946, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812D35.pdf

"Evaluation of Liquefaction Potential of Soils - A Review", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp942-946, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812D35.pdf