THEORY
After the soil completes primary consolidation, the settlement continues by changing of physical structures of the soil fabric. This is so-called Secondary Consolidation or Creep.
The method to predict creep is not reliable and specific to soil types. A method suggested in Das (2002) can be used to compute secondary consolidation from t1 --> t2 after the end of the primary consolidation.
where
The general magnitude of
for various natural deposits are as follows:
OC Clays < 0.001
NC Clays are between 0.005 and 0.03
Organic Soil is 0.04 or more (***)
CONCLUSIONS
EXAMPLE
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