Important links:
- Soil Mechanics (the complete course)
- Settlement and Consolidation of Soils (slide presentation)
- Textbook References: Verruijt Chapters 15-20; SFH 5.4, 8.5.3; Tsytovich 2.1, 2.4, 5.3, 5.4-5.6
- Spreadsheet solution for Hough’s Method
- Some Detailed Material on Consolidation:
- Jean-Louis Briaud’s “Pet Peeve” on the Analysis of Consolidation Settlement Results
- From Elasticity to Consolidation Settlement: Resolving the Issue of Jean-Louis Briaud’s “Pet Peeve”
- Deriving and Solving the Equations of Consolidation
- Determining the Degree of Consolidation
- The Sorry State of Compression Coefficients. Pay attention to what you’re doing.
- Getting to the Legacy of B.K. Hough and his Settlement Method
- Mexico City’s surprising crisis: the city is sinking
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