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The big problem with Settle 3D is that the effective stress is AVERAGED over the entire width of the layer; it is a grossly inaccurate calculation of the effective stresses beneath the embankment. It’s use of finite elements is wasted.

thread274-434534 thread274-434534 for the N.A.I.C.M. program for new international airport in Mexico City, Dr. McNulty proved that both of the design computer programs to compute settlement by the Dutch Contractor TASANA (D-Settle) and ILLICON by Dr. G. Mesri of the University of Illinois, had...

Ok, are you an engineer dedicated to quality? If you are, you would be like any physician fighting for the life of your patient using the Best treatments and technology available. If not, then you are lazy and ignorant of the importance of continual improvement and innovation and should not call...

Okiyru, I already have the paper by Mesri as he gave it to me. But others may wish to read it. Thank you.

yes it could be, but my experience is there is rarely enough information provided by the paper to credibly repeat the case history unless you have unlimited aCcess and time and money equal to the original work. Illicon’s example of that case history illustrates the total and complete...

First subgrade modulus is not a soil property. Structural engineers need to stop using this for foundation design. Second, the property you need and should want is Young's Modulus obtained at an appropriate shear strain level. If you are interested in settlement, then that rules out use of...

I have analyzed settlement for peats over my 40 years of professional practice and not one site could not be explained completely by primary consolidation. When drains or wicks are involved, people fail to recognize the massive soil disturbance and often mass movement caused by 1. bulldozing a...

Has anyone checked ILLICON 2016 against exact solutions? I am writing a user's manual for my finite element consol program that I wrote several years ago, and was verifying my current version with Hamilton Gray's 1945 solution for 3 cases. However, I was also trying to verify that I understood...