Abstract:As important indexes for investigating soil dynamic characteristics, the dynamic parameters of soil play a significant role in seismic calculations. Using the GCTS resonant column device, resonant column experiments were carried out on silt, clay, silty clay, and silty sand. A comparative study was conducted on the modulus ratio expression of the hyperbolic model using a linear fitting method and improved nonlinear fitting method. The results show that the curves fitted by the nonlinear fitting method are closer to the original data points than the curves fitted by linear fitting method. In the low strain soil, the nonlinear fitting residual is less than the linear fitting residual, and with an increase of strain, the nonlinear fitting residual gets closer to linear fitting residual. In the large strain soil, the linear fitting residual is less than the nonlinear fitting residual. The standard error and confidence interval width of the maximum dynamic shear modulus Gdmax and reference shear strain γr, which was calculated by the nonlinear fitting method, are both smaller than the results calculated by the linear fitting method. The improved nonlinear fitting method has a higher accuracy, stability, and application value than the linear fitting method.