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Apr 26, 2012
Post-Preload Settlements of a Soft Bay Mud Site
Publication: Soil Behavior and Soft Ground Construction
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The paper presents a case history involving a soft bay mud site that had been reclaimed for commercial development by filling over old marshlands along the margins of San Francisco Bay. The paper reviews the design of the preload program and the settlements recorded during the preload period. It reviews the post-construction investigations, summarizes the geotechnical characteristics of the bay mud, and evaluates the performance of the preload. It summarizes the results of the monitoring program and reviews the lessons learned regarding the use of vertical drains in combination with preloading to accelerate consolidation of soft clay soils.
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Soil Behavior and Soft Ground Construction
Pages: 291 - 324
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© 2003 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Bays
- Case studies
- Clays
- Coastal engineering
- Coasts, oceans, ports, and waterways engineering
- Consolidated soils
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Design (by type)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Geomechanics
- Geotechnical engineering
- Load factors
- Methodology (by type)
- Mud
- Preloading
- Research methods (by type)
- Soft soils
- Soil mechanics
- Soils (by type)
- Structural design
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Demetrious C. Koutsoftas
Principal, URS Corporation, 221 Main St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94105
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