Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
08 May 1984, 10:15 am - 5:00 pm
Abstract
A widely held view is that rates of compression of peats are controlled by secondary effects and thus cannot be analyzed using primary consolidation theory. Data are presented here for the time rates of settlement of an embankment on peat. Theoretical analyses based on laboratory vertical and radial flow consolidation tests, and utilizing a finite difference scheme, indicated that the soil had undergone a degree of mass flow and was disturbed during or before jetting of sand drains, but that the field settlements could be predicted rationally using primary consolidation theory.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
1st Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1984 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Olson, R. E., "Performance of an Embankment on Peat" (1984). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 26.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/1icchge/1icchge-theme3/26
Performance of an Embankment on Peat
St. Louis, Missouri
A widely held view is that rates of compression of peats are controlled by secondary effects and thus cannot be analyzed using primary consolidation theory. Data are presented here for the time rates of settlement of an embankment on peat. Theoretical analyses based on laboratory vertical and radial flow consolidation tests, and utilizing a finite difference scheme, indicated that the soil had undergone a degree of mass flow and was disturbed during or before jetting of sand drains, but that the field settlements could be predicted rationally using primary consolidation theory.
