Study on one-dimensional consolidation of saturated soil with semi-pervious boundaries and under cyclic loading

The variation of effective stress ratio of stratfied soil with semi-pervious boundaries and under cyclic loading was analyzed on the basis of Terzagh's one-dimensional consolidation assumptions. A solution by Laplace Transform was obtained for the case when the soil was under time-varied loading. With numerical inversion of Laplace Transform, some useful results were obtained for several kinds of commonly encountered loadings. The results can be meaningful in engineering practice. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 59908012) and Fok Ying Tung Education Fundation (No. 81067), Education Ministry of China.