Behaviour of Soft Clay Foundation Beneath an Embankment

As a material, soft clay poses many challenges to geotechnical engineers. The material responds in a spectacular manner to stress changes. The paper describes the behaviour of five embankments constructed on lightly over consolidated soft Malaysian marine clays. The main finding is that the clay r...

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Main Author: Kim Huat, Bujang
Format: Article
Language:English
English
Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 1994
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3117/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3117/1/Behaviour_of_Soft_Clay_Foundation.pdf
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description As a material, soft clay poses many challenges to geotechnical engineers. The material responds in a spectacular manner to stress changes. The paper describes the behaviour of five embankments constructed on lightly over consolidated soft Malaysian marine clays. The main finding is that the clay response to construction is not truly undrained. Significant consolidation develops initially in the over consolidated clay, which becomes normally consolidated during construction. Undrained behaviour develops only in the normally consolidated clay during the initial stages of construction.
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spelling upm-31172013-05-27T07:05:51Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3117/ Behaviour of Soft Clay Foundation Beneath an Embankment Kim Huat, Bujang As a material, soft clay poses many challenges to geotechnical engineers. The material responds in a spectacular manner to stress changes. The paper describes the behaviour of five embankments constructed on lightly over consolidated soft Malaysian marine clays. The main finding is that the clay response to construction is not truly undrained. Significant consolidation develops initially in the over consolidated clay, which becomes normally consolidated during construction. Undrained behaviour develops only in the normally consolidated clay during the initial stages of construction. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 1994 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3117/1/Behaviour_of_Soft_Clay_Foundation.pdf Kim Huat, Bujang (1994) Behaviour of Soft Clay Foundation Beneath an Embankment. Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology, 2 (2). pp. 215-235. ISSN 0128-7680 English
spellingShingle Kim Huat, Bujang
Behaviour of Soft Clay Foundation Beneath an Embankment
title Behaviour of Soft Clay Foundation Beneath an Embankment
title_full Behaviour of Soft Clay Foundation Beneath an Embankment
title_fullStr Behaviour of Soft Clay Foundation Beneath an Embankment
title_full_unstemmed Behaviour of Soft Clay Foundation Beneath an Embankment
title_short Behaviour of Soft Clay Foundation Beneath an Embankment
title_sort behaviour of soft clay foundation beneath an embankment
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3117/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3117/1/Behaviour_of_Soft_Clay_Foundation.pdf