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FOUR FIELD CASES ARE EXAMINED OF POST-CONSTRUCTION SETTLE- MENTS OF STRUCTURES /BUILDINGS AND PAVED AREAS/ BUILT OVER COMPRESSIBLE ORGANIC SOIL DEPOSITS /MARSHLANDS/. LABORATORY TESTS SHOW THAT THESE SOILS EXHIBIT SUBSTANTIAL RATES OF SECONDARY COMPRESSION. ALL SITES WERE STABILIZED BY SURCHARGE FILLS, ONE SITE INVOLVED THE USE OF SAND DRAINS. TWO ADJOINING BUILDINGS ARE COMPARED, ONE WITH SAND DRAINS AND ONE WITHOUT. SURCHARGE SETTLEMENT RECORDS AND PIEZOMETER DATA ARE EVALUATED TO ESTIMATE THE EFFECTIVE CONSOLIDATION PRESSURES WHICH WERE ACHIEVED DUE TO SURCHARGING.

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1966

Highway Research Record

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Figures (28) ; References (15)

Building; Compressibility; Consolidations; Field studies; Fills; Laboratory tests; Marshes; Organic deposits; Organic soils; Pavements; Piezometers; Sand drains; Settlement (Structures); Structures

Surcharge

Bridges and other structures; Construction; Geotechnology; Highways; Pavements

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• EXPERIMENTAL SAND DRAIN FILL AT NAPA RIVER
• METHOD OF INSTALLATION AS A FACTOR IN SAND DRAIN STABILIZATION DESIGN
• OBSERVATIONAL APPROACH AND INSTRUMENTATION FOR CONSTRUCTION ON COMPRESSIBLE SOILS
• SUMMARY OF TREATMENTS FOR HIGHWAY EMBANKMENTS ON SOFT FOUNDATIONS