STUDY ON ONE-DIMENSIONAL CONSOLIDATION OF SATURATED CLAY BASED ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EFFECTIVE STRESS RELAXATION AND CREEP STRAIN

To estimate the consolidation settlement of saturated clay ground, it is important to take the creep settlement during the primary consolidation into account. There are a lot of unknown factors, however, which affect the creep settlement during the consolidation. In this paper, in order to clarify the effects of creep during the primary consolidation, the relationships between effective stress relaxation under the undrained condition and the creep settlement were investigated by using the separate-type consolidometer. In conclusion, it is clarified that there exists a nonlinear relationship between them and the effect of creep settlement during the primary consolidation was discussed.