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This study reports the results of type-B predictions for dynamic centrifuge model tests of a liquefiable sloping ground conducted at various centrifuge facilities within a framework of the LEAP-UCD-2017. The simulations are carried out with a finite strain analysis program, called “FLIP TULIP,” which incorporates a strain space multiple mechanism model based on the finite strain theory (including both total and updated Lagrangian formulations). The program can take into account the effect of geometrical nonlinearity as well as material nonlinearity’s effect. Soil parameters for the constitutive model are determined referring to the results of laboratory experiments (e.g., cyclic triaxial tests) and some empirical formulae. This chapter describes the parameter identification process in details as well as the computational conditions (e.g., geometric modeling, initial and boundary conditions, numerical schemes such as time integration technique). Type-B prediction results are compared with the centrifuge test results to examine the applicability of the program and constitutive model.