... of the subsoil consolidation degree, subsoil ultimate bearing capacity, fill shear strength and platform, are investigated considering the behaviour and deformation of piled embankments. The result of the proposed method is compared to field measurements and to five other design standards to study its validity...

... involving cycles between load rather than displacement limits. The tests use kaolin clay and a reconstituted carbonate silt and involve three cyclic phases with intervening consolidation periods. The results demonstrate the important and beneficial role of consolidation, with the loss in strength due...

... compressibility consolidation Studies of lacustrine and marine deposits in numerous places around the world indicate that diatom microfossils create highly porous microstructures, which increase consistency limits, and creates extremely compressible soils which also have very high shear strength (Díaz...

...G. Lu The consolidation of a cemented mine fill is controlled by the rate of backfilling in regard to its permeability as well as the companion chemical shrinkage due to hydration reaction. A unified equation is derived in the study to delineate the one-dimensional (1D) deposition and consolidation...

...K. Choudhary; B. Indraratna; C. Rujikiatkamjorn Radial consolidation testing of Ballina clay (New South Wales, Australia) was carried out using a large-scale consolidometer 650 mm in diameter. In this study, the characteristics of the smear zone were evaluated on the basis of hydraulic gradient...

... of time on undrained strength and sensitivity of soft, overconsolidated kaolinites that were produced by slurry consolidation in conventional oedometers in a synthetic seawater medium. The overconsolidated kaolinite specimens (overconsolidation ratio = 1·2:4) were allowed to experience changes in pore...

... of an analysis of the excess pore pressures in a simultaneously accreting and consolidating sediment. The dimensionless governing equation lends itself to finite-difference solution: results are presented for a typical rate of volumetric shrinkage and compared with Gibson's original isochrones of excess pore...

...J. S. Vinod; A. Sridharan In the recent past, many studies have been carried out on the determination of coefficient of consolidation (c_v) from the time (t)–deformation (d) data obtained from conventional consolidation tests. Several researchers have also...

...J. Shi; S. Qian; L. L. Zeng; X. Bian Triaxial anisotropic consolidation tests were performed on Wenzhou clay reconstituted at two initial water contents to investigate the effect of deviatoric stress on volume change during compression. The laboratory test results show that volumetric strain...

... times the liquid limit. In order to avoid soil squeezing between the ring and the loading cap, specimens with a high initial water content (w_0,i ≥ 1·2w_{L) were consolidated at an initial vertical stress of 2·5 kPa, otherwise a load of 5·0 kPa was adopted}...

...Y. Yan; D. J. White; M. F. Randolph Finite-element analyses of the axial sliding resistance of a seabed pipeline embedded in soft normally consolidated modified Cam clay are presented. The study demonstrates the rise in axial resistance associated with episodes of movement with intervening periods...

...S. Chatterjee; Y. Yan; M. F. Randolph; D. J. White The consolidation response of partially embedded seabed pipelines has been investigated in the past using small-strain finite-element (SSFE) analysis with elastic soil response. This paper presents results from large-deformation finite-element...

...H. M. Abuel-Naga; M. J. Pender One of the assumptions of the standard consolidation theory used in soil mechanics is that the coefficient of consolidation is a material property that remains constant during the consolidation process. This note demonstrates numerically the effect...