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A 10 m wide road is to be constructed across a site where the soil profile...
A 10 m wide road is to be constructed across a site where the soil profile consists of 3 m of sand, overlying 1 m of peat, over a deep sand deposit. The water table is 1 m below the soil surface. The road pavement applies a uniform stress of 20 kPa to the underlying soil. The peat is lightly over-consolidated with an over-consolidation ratio of 1.25, has a uniform void ratio, e = 2.0, a re-compression index, Cr = 0.2, a compression index, Cc =1, and a specific gravity, Gs = 2.5. The sand can be assumed to be incompressible, with d = 17 kN/m3 and sat = 20 kN/m3 . Calculate the settlement beneath the centre and beneath an edge of the road.
The answer is 28.8mm beneath the centre and 6.4mm under the edge but I can't understand why.
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