@article{373,
  author = {C.R.I. Clayton and J.A. Priest and AI Best},
  title = {The effects of disseminated methane hydrate on the dynamic stiffness and damping of a sand},
  abstract = {Methane hydrates are ice-like compounds that can exist only under restricted thermobaric conditions, at low temperatures or under high ambient pressure. They are important because of their potential contributions as a future source of energy, to global warming, and as a possible trigger for long run-out submarine slope instability. This paper describes laboratory experiments to synthesise disseminated methane hydrates and to characterise them under small-strain dynamic loading in the resonant column apparatus. The effects of depositing varying quantities of methane hydrate within a sand are investigated by reference to their shear and bulk modulus, and damping, over a range of isotropic effective stress. Results are compared with those obtained on the same sand without hydrate bonding and after dissociation.},
  year = {2005},
  journal = {G\ eotechnique},
  volume = {55},
  number = {6},
  pages = {423-434},
  isbn = {0016-8505},
}