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If soil, saturated with water, is loaded, e.g. by constructing a building on top of it, a deformation can occur, even if water and grains are considered incompressible. The reason is that the grains can move relative to one another, such that the pore volume changes. The water in the pores has to flow in or out, which takes some time. This process of consolidation is therefore time dependent. For a more comprehensive discussion see Verruijt (1983). Here, we consider a simple case where the process occurs in the vertical dimension only (Fig. 10.1).
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Vreugdenhil, C.B. (1989). Consolidation of Soil. In: Computational Hydraulics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95578-5_10
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