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Consolidation in clay soil
Fattdad, I will look at the data per your pointers, I do have it. I just have difficulties understanding it, its been a long time. Oldestguy, that is the biggest concern since previous projects in the same geo area are bumpy in cut areas. It is recommended that we over excavate it and fill...- eit2dot
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Consolidation in clay soil
Depth of clay is around 8 to 12 ft. Underlying it is shale bedrock with varying thickness of 2 to 15 ft accross the site. Ground water is encounteted at 9.5 ft below ground surface in one of the test holes and none was encounteted in the remaining 13 bore holes along 1.4 miles stretch. I have no...- eit2dot
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- Forum: Geotechnical engineering general discussion
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Consolidation in clay soil
We are building a 40' highway on A-7-6 (clay) over a railroad. The max embankment to the approaches of the bridge is 35' and will be using A-7-6 as well as embankment material. MSE walls as high as 20' will be built to hold the embankment on each side where the railroad goes underneath the...- eit2dot
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