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CONSOL: a computer program for 1-D consolidation analysis of layered soil masses - microcomputer version

Wong, Kai S.; Duncan, James M.

UCB/GT-84-06, University of California, Berkeley, Geotechnical Engineering, 1984-04, PDF (1.( MB)

The computer program CONSOL calculates the total and time rate of settlement for one-dimensional layered soil masses using an implicit finite difference method. It permits intermediate drainage due to the presence of sand layer; it computes reduction in stresses as the overlying fill submerges below water table with time; it computes stresses due to changes in ground-water level; it computes stresses due to placement or removal of large areal fill; it computes stress due to circular areal fill; it computes stresses due strip fill.

Available online: http://library.eerc.berkeley.edu/documents/GEOTECH/UCB-GT-84-06.pdf