Some of the newer CGM reports are available to download as PDF files, as indicated by a PDF link in the listing below. These reports are free to interested parties. We would, however, appreciate a quick e-mail to cgm@ucdavis.edu telling us which report you have downloaded, simply for our record keeping purposes. Thank you.

Reports and data reports that are not yet available for download can be ordered by sending an e-mail request to cgm@ucdavis.edu. Please state which report you are requesting and your mailing address. The price for each report is $20 (US), which is used to offset the price of printing and distributing the reports.

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UCD/CGM-04/01 "Evaluating the Potential for Liquefaction or Cyclic Failure of Silts and Clays." R.W. Boulanger, I. M. Idriss. (Download PDF - 9.3 MB)

UCD/CGM-03/01 "Pile Foundations in Liquefied and Laterally Spreading Ground Pile Foundations in Liquefied and Laterally Spreading Ground During Earthquakes: Centrifuge Experiments & Analyses." R. W. Boulanger, B. L. Kutter, S. J. Brandenberg, P. Singh, D. Chang, September, 2003 (Download PDF - 5.6 MB)

UCD/CGM-00/01 "Centrifuge Characterization and Numerical Modeling of the Dynamic Properties of Tire Shreds for use as Bridge Abutment Backfill." B. Jeremic, D.W. Wilson, K. Rosebrook, Z. Yang, May, 2000 (under review)

UCD/CGM-99/02 "Centrifuge modeling of the seismic response of LNG production facility structures: Phase III." P.N. Robins, R.L. Tarin, D.J. Thompson, S. Higuchi, T. Mori, and B.L. Kutter, July, 1999

UCD/CGM-99/01 "Final Report: NSF - NEES Workshop. Geotechnical earthquake engineering experimental facilities: developing a national network with structural, seismological, and coastal earthquake engineering seismic simulation facilities." May 28-29, 1998. B.L. Kutter, R. Dobry, F. Raichlen, N. Sitar, K.H. Stokoe, and L.T. Youd, steering committee. April, 1999. (Download PDF - 0.4 MB)

UCD/CGM-98/06 "Centrifuge modeling of the seismic response of LNG production facility structures: Phase I." D.P. Stewart, B.L. Kutter, S. Higuchi, P.N. Robins, K.R. Narayanan, and D.J. Thompson, October, 1998. *

UCD/CGM-98/05 "Centrifuge modeling of the seismic performance of seawalls for man-made islands." D.P. Stewart, R.R. Settgast, S. Higuchi, T. Kawai, B.L. Kutter, and I.M. Idriss, October, 1998. *

UCD/CGM-98/04 "Soil-pile-superstructure interaction in liquefying sand and soft clay." D.W. Wilson (Ph.D. dissertation), September, 1998. (Download PDF - 3 MB)

UCD/CGM-98/03 "Centrifuge modeling of liquefaction remediation at bridge sites." A. Balakrishnan, B.L. Kutter, and I.M. Idriss, May, 1998.

UCD/CGM-98/02 "Centrifuge modeling of the seismic response of LNG production facility structures: Phase II." R.L. Tarin, P.N. Robins, D.J. Thompson, S. Higuchi, T. Mori, and B.L. Kutter, March, 1998.

UCD/CGM-98/01 "The response of piles during earthquakes: Dynamic soil-pile-superstructure interaction." R.W. Boulanger, B.L. Kutter, and D.W. Wilson, February, 1998. (More info)

UCD/CGM-97/04 "Ground improvement issues for the Posey & Webster St. Tubes seismic retrofit project: Lessons from physical modeling studies." D.P. Stewart, R.W. Boulanger, I.M. Idriss, Y.Hashash, and B.Schmidt, April, 1997.

UCD/CGM-97/03 "Ground improvement issues for the Posey & Webster St. Tubes seismic retrofit project: Lessons from case histories." R.W. Boulanger, D.P. Stewart, I.M. Idriss, Y. Hashash, and B. Schmidt, April, 1997.

UCD/CGM-97/02 "Centrifuge modeling of the seismic response of LNG production facility structures: Phase I." D.P. Stewart, B.L. Kutter, S. Higuchi, P.N. Robins, K.R. Narayanan, and D.J. Thompson, March, 1997.

UCD/CGM-97/01 "Dynamic properties of Sherman Island Peat," by R.W. Boulanger, R. Arulnathan, L.F. Harder, and R.A. Torres, March, 1997.

UCD/CGM-95/02 "Investigation and evaluation of liquefaction related ground displacements at Moss Landing during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake," R.W. Boulanger, I.M. Idriss, and L.H. Mejia, May, 1995. (Download Report PDF - 17.2 MB, Download Appendices PDF - 5.6 MB, Download CPT Data - 0.1 MB)

UCD/CGM-94/03 "User's Manual for QUAD4M - A computer program to evaluate the seismic response of soil structures using finite element procedures and incorporating a compliant base." M. Hudson, I.M. Idriss, M. Beikae. Revised 2003. (Download PDF - 2.33Mb)

UCD/CGM-94/02 "Three-dimensional dynamic response analyses of Cogswell Dam during the 1991 Sierra Madre and 1987 Whittier Narrows Earthquakes," by R.W. Boulanger, S.M. Merry, J.D. Bray, and L.H. Mejia, November, 1994. {The journal equivalent of this report is Boulanger, R.W., Bray, J.D., Merry, S.M., and Mejia, L.H. (1995). "Three-dimensional dynamic response analyses of Cogswell dam." Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 32(3): 452-464}

SUMDES-92 "A Nonlinear Procedure for Response Analysis of Horizontally-layered Sites Subjected to Multi-directional Earthquake Loading." X. S. Li, Z. L. Wang, C. K. Shen, Department of Civil Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1993 (Download Report and Executable Program - 0.99 MB)

(note - an * denotes the report has not yet been approved for public release.)