Episode 34 - Soil Testing in the World's Biggest Blender Part 2 - with Dr. Scott Brandenberg
In the second half of this interview, Dr. Scott Brandenberg provides a fascinating and detailed overview of his first major research project, which was to study propagation of earthquake ground motions through soft soil layer — from painstakingly building the models, to testing them and then analyzing the results. Among other things, Brandenberg explains why it’s important to measure the sheer strength properly over a wide range of shaking intensities, not just for the really strong ground motions, a finding he says is in parallel with other fundamental profiling studies.
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Show Notes
In the second half of this interview, Dr. Scott Brandenberg provides a fascinating and detailed overview of his first major research project, which was to study propagation of earthquake ground motions through soft soil layer — from painstakingly building the models, to testing them and then analyzing the results.
Among other things, Brandenberg explains why it’s important to measure the sheer strength properly over a wide range of shaking intensities, not just for the really strong ground motions, a finding he says is in parallel with other fundamental profiling studies.