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Design of railway track and highways on embankments with compacted fills often needs the value of small-strain shear modulus of the fill soil to be known before construction. This paper presents a new method of determining the value of Gmax using bender elements within the mould of laboratory compaction test which is generally performed to decide specifications of field compaction before construction...