Change of Soil Stress State around Foundation Pit due to Dewatering

Abstract

Engineering dewatering has been widely used to improve soil characteristics currently, whereas dewatering always bring about soil settlement around the pumping well inevitably, which may be the largest defect of dewatering. In this paper, several possible factors leading to soil subsidence are explored, then the change of soil stress under the action of dewatering drainage during phreatic aquifer well pumping are investigated. From the two aspects that may be encountered during dewatering in confined aquifer: only pressure lowering effect as well as simultaneous function of both pressure relief and dewatering drainage, we study the change of soil stress state around foundation pit. The conclusions obtained through this research will contribute much to the calculation of soil settlement caused by dewatering, also beneficial to seek the settlement control measures.