Abstract
A numerical procedure is presented to analyse consolidation problems involving anisotropic layered soils which contain incompressible as well as compressible pore fluid. The governing differential equations are reduced to ordinary differential equations by applying a Fourier transform along with a Laplace transform, and the solution is found in the finite element fashion without great computational efforts. The soil deposit is discretized by one-dimensional elements, and for each element, use is made of quadratic interpolating functions that implicitly enforce interelement continuity. A number of comparisons with existing solutions are shown in order to assess the accuracy of the present method. Finally, a parametric study is carried out to investigate the influence of elastic anisotropy on the consolidation processes caused by surface loading.
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