Study of the Processes of Consolidation of a Thick Mass of Water-Saturated Clay Soils when Erecting Unique Structures

The paper provides the results of natural studies of consolidation of weak water-saturated clay soils of large thickness performed at the experimental sites located within the Imereti lowland (Olympic objects, Media center, city of Sochi) and a stadium in the city of Kaliningrad (Oktyabrskii island). A development of deformations, stress conditions and variation of pore pressure within the bulk of the weak water-saturated soils were studies, and the calculation results were compared to the actual deformation data.