Plane-strain consolidation theory with distributed drainage boundary

• Main Authors: Chen, Z., Ni, Pengpeng, Chen, Y., Mei, G.
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Civil engineering; Average Degree of Consolidation; Boundary Transform Method
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154259
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In practice, the full arrangement of sand blankets overlying soft clays could result in an uneconomic design for soft soil treatment using the surcharge preloading method. In view of this, a novel type of distributed drainage boundary is proposed in this investigation to improve the design. A two-di...