ABSTRACT

Houlsby, 1984; Trautmann et al., 1985; Palmer et al., 1990; Schaminée et al., 1990; Dickin, 1994; Croll, 1997; Moradiand Craig, 1998; Baumgard, 2000;White et al., 2001; Bransby et al., 2001; and Cheuk, 2005) by researchers on both structural and geotechnical fronts. Most research effort has been directed at identifying the maximum available uplift resistance in granular soils. Little has been concluded, however, on the full uplift force-displacement regime. Small-scale centrifuge tests are widely used as a modeling technique for uplift resistance. Comparison between model and full-scale experiments shows good agreement on the maximum available uplift resistance, but there are significant discrepancies in the dimensionless mobilization displacement (Palmer et al., 2003).