The Observation of the Settlement of a Farm Road and the Results of the Consolidation Analysis

Abstract

The author showed the observational results of the farm road which was constructed by the preloading method, and which was investigated over a period of three years including both a test of the embankment and the regular construction, and an arrangement of the characteristics and the problems of the settlement of the farm road. Moreover, the author applied the two-dimensional elasto-plastic consolidation analysis by the finite element method to the measured examples and examined the adaptability of the theoretical analysis. And then, the author ascertained that the theoretically calculated values of the consolidation time-settlement agreed very well with the measured ones. Moreover, it became clear that the variations in the pore water pressure and stress could be correctly assumed.