The response of a saturated soil foundation to an embankment load is studied with FLAC. The soil behavior is represented by a Cam-clay material model. The pore pressure build up and dissipation in the foundation soil and the settlement beneath the embankment are calculated during undrained and drained loading. This is a fully coupled mechanical-fluid flow calculation.
Keywords:
- Saturated soil
- fluid flow coupling
- Drained and undrained responses
- Embarkment settlement
- Cam-Clay model
Materials:
- Soil
- Water
Analyses:
- Fluid Flow
- Static