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An area of engineering soils likely to be affected by loading due to engineering or building development.
It is the designer’s task to define the bounds of a domain that should be considered in any computational analysis of ground loading. For that purpose, a zone of influence is defined.
Highly sophisticated approaches, especially numerical procedures, have been created to solve this task. All require input of material parameters and prescription of boundary and initial conditions. It is, therefore, necessary to estimate the influence zone. This, however, requires the solution of problems.
It has been experimentally confirmed that soil substantially changes its material properties when subjected to external loading. Apart from that, when subjected to a certain loading history, soil has the ability to “memorize” the highest past level of loading. This property is known as preconsolidation and is mathematically represented by the over-consolidation ratio. Hydraulic and...
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Kuklik, P. (2018). Zone of Influence. In: Bobrowsky, P.T., Marker, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73568-9_309
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