Detail Design and Performance of A Small-Scale Laminar Shear Box For 1g Shaking Table Experiments

Physical modelling is a powerful tool which has been used in the past few decades to simulate the behavior of various fullscale or reduced-scale geotechnical problems through the use of appropriate scale laws. while element tests are frequently used to obtain soil parameters and predict soil behavior, they are unable to provide observations of how soil and structuresinteract in real condition. for this reason, physical modelling is more valuable approach to understand the behavior of soilstructure systems. one of the requirements of physical modelling for geotechnical earthquake problems is the replication of semi-infinite extent of the ground in a finite dimension model soil container.