Abstract
Soft clay settlement is well known as a major problem in the civil engineering structures such as highways, buildings and bridges. The problem arises due to the current settlement analysis which is derived from the effective stress concept. It considers the volume change increase with the increase in the effective stress, whereas the settlement problem is not always happened in this fashion. In fact, the inundation problem that causes the sudden settlement during the effective stress decrease really put a tremendous blow to this concept. It is proved that the empirical effective stress concept that is widely used by the engineer is not the appropriate analysis. In fact, this is one of the main factors that cause many settlement problems. The objective of this paper is to review several settlement models available in the literature and to distinguish the applicability of the model to predict soil settlement. It also reviewed the volume change behaviour by incorporating shear strength concept that is more appropriate to predict the settlement. Hopefully, this paper will help the new researcher to uncover the unique behaviour of clay settlement and at the same time will reduce the settlement problem cases.
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This work is partially supported by Universiti Teknologi MARA. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions of the reviewers, which have improved the presentation.
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Ahmad, J., Rosli, M.I.F., Abdul Rahman, A.S., Senin, S.F., Md Noor, M.J. (2018). Volume Change Behaviour of Clay by Incorporating Shear Strength: A Review. In: Saian, R., Abbas, M. (eds) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Future of ASEAN (ICoFA) 2017 – Volume 2. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8471-3_49
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