Instrumentation Performance in Soft Clay Soils (A Case History)

by James E. Laier, Southern Earth Sciences Inc, Mobile, AL, USA,
William H. Brenner, Southern Earth Sciences Inc, Mobile, AL, USA,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Sedimentation Consolidation Models?Predictions and Validation

Abstract:

In 1978, IDEAL BASIC INDUSTRIES, INC. initiated construction of a cement manufacturing plant located south of Mobile, Alabama on the Theodore Ship Channel. Because deltaic clays were too weak to support the limestone stockpile, provisions were made to improve in-situ soil strength by surcharging using stage loading techniques. Vertical wick drains were installed to accelerate consolidation. In-situ soil displacement and stability characteristics were predicted using laboratory testing to evaluate stress history, consolidation characteristics and stress-strain-strength properties of foundation clays.

Subject Headings: Consolidated soils | Soil-structure interaction | Soil properties | Soil pressure | Clays | Soil stress | Soil stabilization | Alabama | United States

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