This paper estimated the liquefaction potential of a saturated soil deposit subjected to a
horizontal seismic excitation at its base using the total stress approach. A comparative
analysis between the simplified and the nonlinear dynamic methods was used to verify to
what extent the simplified method could be reliable. In order to generalise the reliability of
the simplified method for any value of the maximum acceleration for the used earthquakes, a
correction for the maximum acceleration less than 0.3g was proposed based on the …