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Table 3

Soil layer properties used in the FE model

Parameter	Unit	Loose sand	Clayey silt (organic)	Clayey silt	Silty sand
Unsaturated unit weight, γ _unsat	kN/m³	16	15	16	18
Saturated unit weight, γ _sat	kN/m³	17	16	17.5	20
Secant stiffness modulus, $E_{50}^{ref}$	kN/m²	10 000	12 045	15 060	38 250
Oedometer modulus, $E_{oed}^{ref}$	kN/m²	12 465	15 817	18 042	45 520
Unloading/reloading stiffness, $E_{ur}^{ref}$	kN/m²	30 256	36 087	46 584	117 040
Cohesion, c	kPa	0	15	15	0
Friction angle, φ: °		28	22	25	36
Unloading/reloading Poisson’s ratio, ν _ur		0.2	0.2	0.25	0.25
Power for stress-level dependency of stiffness, m		0.5	0.6	0.6	0.5

Parameter	Unit	Loose sand	Clayey silt (organic)	Clayey silt	Silty sand
Unsaturated unit weight, γ _unsat	kN/m³	16	15	16	18
Saturated unit weight, γ _sat	kN/m³	17	16	17.5	20
Secant stiffness modulus, $E_{50}^{ref}$	kN/m²	10 000	12 045	15 060	38 250
Oedometer modulus, $E_{oed}^{ref}$	kN/m²	12 465	15 817	18 042	45 520
Unloading/reloading stiffness, $E_{ur}^{ref}$	kN/m²	30 256	36 087	46 584	117 040
Cohesion, c	kPa	0	15	15	0
Friction angle, φ: °		28	22	25	36
Unloading/reloading Poisson’s ratio, ν _ur		0.2	0.2	0.25	0.25
Power for stress-level dependency of stiffness, m		0.5	0.6	0.6	0.5