Due to the development of construction techniques and improvements in the quality of construction materials, structures have become higher, larger, and more complex with increased service life.

Atterberg limits are very useful plasticity properties of fine-grained soils, which have been popularly used to predict engineering properties through various correlations developed from time to time.

The response of a nuclear installation’s structure during an earthquake depends on the characteristics of the ground motion, the surrounding soil and the structure itself. Soil– structure interaction ...