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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2003, Vol. 4 Issue (2): 195-201    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.2003.0195
Civil Engineering     
Computation of one-dimensional consolidation of double layered ground using differential quadrature method
WANG Hong-zhi, CHEN Yun-min, HUANG Bo
Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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Abstract  The authors give the solution to the problem of one-dimensional consolidation of double-layered ground with the use of the differential quadrature method. Case studies showed that the computational results for pore-water pressure in soil layer agreed with those of analytical solution; and that in the computational results for the interface of soil layer also agreed with those of the analytical solution except for the small discrepancies during shortly after the start of computation. The advantages of the solution presented in this paper are that compared with the analytical solution, it avoids the cumbersome work in solving the transcendental equation for eigenvalues, and in the case of the Laplace transform solution, it can resolve the precision problem in the numerical solution of long time inverse Laplace transform. Because of the matrix form of the solution in this paper, it is convenient for formulating computational program for engineering practice. The formulas for calculating double-layered ground consolidation may be easily extended to the case of multi-layered soils.

Key wordsDouble-layered ground      One-dimensional consolidation      Differential quadrature method     
Received: 20 February 2002     
CLC:  TU433  
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WANG Hong-zhi, CHEN Yun-min, HUANG Bo. Computation of one-dimensional consolidation of double layered ground using differential quadrature method. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2003, 4(2): 195-201.

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