Secondary Compression
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A large volume of reliable measurements of one-dimensional settlement, observed in the laboratory and in the field for a wide variety of natural soil deposits, demonstrate that during secondary compression may remain constant, decrease, or increase over a significant period of time. This important body of observed data and associated explanations in terms of the law of compressibility have been apparently overlooked in attempts to describe secondary compression by means of mathematical formulas. Data are presented to illustrate the limitations of “first-order rate equations” to describe secondary settlement.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 131 • Issue 3 • March 2005
Pages: 398 - 401
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Received: May 10, 2004
Accepted: Jul 26, 2004
Published online: Mar 1, 2005
Published in print: Mar 2005
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