Application of Effective Stress Model to Analysis of Liquefaction and Seismic Performance of an Earth Dam in China

Table 2

Properties of the soils used in the numerical modeling.

Material	Unit weight/kN/m^3	Shear modulus numbers	Shear modulus exponent	Bulk modulus numbers	Bulk modulus exponents	Cohesion/kPa	Friction angle/°	Permeability coefficient cm/s
Clay	19.5	490	0.50	1470	0.50	48.0	24.0
Gravel	20.0	1200	0.63	3600	0.63	0.0	37.0
Block	22.0	1050	0.69	3150	0.69	0.0	45.0	0.55