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Hello my friends,
I am looking for a quick tool ,for example ,excel-sheet , for calculation of settlement of embankment on clayey soil just  to have a quick felling on "what-if " concerning the settlement of my embankment. Thanks a lot for support.

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Wouldn't think that this would be too difficult for you to set up - you would understand it better.  Need to take into account immediate settlements, overconsolidation ratio, stress increases - see Poulos and Davis for stresses beneath embankments.

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I have used this approach for years.  You will also need unit weights (damp as well as saturated).  I broke my layer into foot thickness.  Run all comps down until the added pressure from the embankment is 10 percent of existing and that can be plenty deep.  For a wide embankment I use no distribution at all.  You may have to make some assumptions as to pre-compression, etc.  Many rough relationships are out there relating compressibility to moisture content, limits, etc.  the older NAVFAC manuals had a lot of these.

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