Secondary compression

G. Mesri; B. Vardhanabhuti

doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2005)131:3(398)

Secondary compression

G. Mesri, B. Vardhanabhuti

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Abstract

A large volume of reliable measurements of one-dimensional settlement, observed in the laboratory and in the field for a wide variety of natural soil deposits, demonstrate that during secondary compression ΔS/ Δ log t may remain constant, decrease, or increase over a significant period of time. This important body of observed data and associated explanations in terms of the C_α/C_c law of compressibility have been apparently overlooked in attempts to describe secondary compression by means of mathematical formulas. Data are presented to illustrate the limitations of "first-order rate equations" to describe secondary settlement.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	398-401
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume	131
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2005)131:3(398)
State	Published - Mar 2005

Keywords

Settlement analysis
Soil compression
Soil consolidation
Soil settlement

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Environmental Science
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

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