Seepage Consolidation under Plane Deformation of Elastic Half-Space

Abstract

The process of seepage consolidation of elastic saturated half-space under the action of an arbitrary normal surface load is investigated in the case of plane deformation. The fluid and skeleton grains are assumed to be incompressible. A new mathematical model of consolidation is proposed with the use of the compatibility equation. Analytic dependences for the sum of effective normal stresses and fluid pressure are found on the basis of this model. The total normal stresses are explicitly expressed in terms of these dependences.