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Empirical Analysis of Horizontal Ground

Displacement Generated by Liquefaction-
Induced Lateral Spreads

by

S.F. Bartlett and T.L. Youd

Technical Report NCEER-92-0021

August 17, 1992

This research was conducted at Brigham Young University and was supported in whole
or in part by the National Science Foundation under grant number BCS 90-25010 and the
New York State Science and Technology Foundation under Grant No. NEC-91029.
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