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What is the coeffcient of horizontal subgrade?

What is the coeffcient of horizontal subgrade?

What is the coeffcient of horizontal subgrade?

(OP)
That is, what's "n sub h"?

The definition is elusive. I told someone to think of it as a horizontal spring constant of soil, but that didn't seem to have any meaning and, semi-lazy me, I haven't mined deep enough. Thanks in advance to anyone with insight, etc.

RE: What is the coeffcient of horizontal subgrade?

See this thread:
thread256-164011

or search the forum for "horizontal subgrade"

RE: What is the coeffcient of horizontal subgrade?

See, also,  M.J. Tomlinson's book on Pile Design and Construction (Viking Press)

RE: What is the coeffcient of horizontal subgrade?

(OP)
thread256-164011

Now THAT was quite useful.

Most of all, it tells me that I am not wrong when I tell someone to get a better answer from a geotechnical engineer.

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