Effect of vacuum removal on consolidation settlement under a combined vacuum and surcharge preloading

• Main Authors: Ni, Pengpeng, Xu, Kai, Mei, Guoxiong, Zhao, Yanlin
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Geosynthetics; Vacuum and Surcharge Preloading
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/150793
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The combined vacuum and surcharge preloading technique is extensively used to accelerate the consolidation process of subsoils. The effect of vacuum pressure is often considered as a loading/unloading cycle of mean effective stress, such that elastic rebound occurs after vacuum removal, which cannot...