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GATE Civil Engineering · Consolidation · 2022-2026
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All concepts →For a clayey soil stratum, the time required for degree of consolidation from 25 % to 50 % is 30 days. The total time (in days) required for 90 % degree of consolidation of the sam...
A 6 m thick clay stratum has drainage at both its top and bottom surface due to the presence of sand strata. The time to complete $50 \%$ consolidation is 2 years. The coefficient...
The total primary consolidation settlement ($S_c$) of a building constructed on a 10 m thick saturated clay layer is estimated to be 50 mm. After 300 days of the construction of th...
A raft foundation of 30 m $$\times$$ 25 m is proposed to be constructed at a depth of 8 m in a sand layer. A 25 m thick saturated clay layer exists 2 m below the base of the raft f...