Abstract
Pre-Consolidation Pressure Provides Valuable Information About Soil Behavior And, Specifically, Settlement under an Induced Load. Soil is Expected to Have Less Settlement Before its Pre-Consolidation Pressure and Much More Settlement after that Point. the Pre-Consolidation Pressure and the Compressibility of the Soil Can Be Determined from the Results of a One-Dimensional Consolidation Test. Different Methods Have Been Developed to Obtain the Accurate Pre-Consolidation Pressure from One Dimensional Consolidation Test Data. This Paper Presents and Discusses the Results of the One-Dimensional Consolidation Test Data from an Extensive Testing Program. the Test Specimens Used Were Obtained from Multiple Borehole Locations and Were Extracted using Shelby Tube Samplers. the Focus of This Paper is the Comparison of Three Pre-Consolidation Stress Determination Techniques, Which Were Performed on Each Specimen of the Large Sample Pool. the Methods Used Were the Casagrande Method, Strain-Energy Method, and Intersecting Tangent Method. the Implementation of These Methods Will Be Evaluated. in Addition, the Subjectivity of Each Method Will Be Addressed. the Final Results of the Techniques Will Then Be Compared and Contrasted. © 2011 ASCE.
Recommended Citation
O. Conte et al., "Evaluation of Pre-Consolidation Stress Determination Methods," Geotechnical Special Publication, no. 222 GSP, pp. 147 - 154, American Society of Civil Engineers, Dec 2011.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1061/47633(412)20
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
Soil consolidation; Soil properties; Stress
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-078447633-8
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
0895-0563
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2023 American Society of Civil Engineers, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Dec 2011
