pelelo
Geotechnical
- Aug 10, 2009
- 357
Gents,
I was wondering what is the best approach that you use to compute elastic settlements on clays?.
There is a job site which is composed clay in the top 40 ft. Water table was no encountered by any of the of borings.
They plan is to build a 2 story home, therefore I was wondering what is the best approach to compute immediate settlements?.
After consulting several references, schmertmann's approach is available but it is for granular soils.
I wanted to follow the elastic theory approach and use the E values based on PI and Su (By Duncan and Buchignani) but those E values are for saturated clays.
Please advise.
I was wondering what is the best approach that you use to compute elastic settlements on clays?.
There is a job site which is composed clay in the top 40 ft. Water table was no encountered by any of the of borings.
They plan is to build a 2 story home, therefore I was wondering what is the best approach to compute immediate settlements?.
After consulting several references, schmertmann's approach is available but it is for granular soils.
I wanted to follow the elastic theory approach and use the E values based on PI and Su (By Duncan and Buchignani) but those E values are for saturated clays.
Please advise.