A ground is nonengginered fill 15 years back; how we can
find the level of consolidation and bearing capacity

Answer Posted / sard

lab test have to be done to find out the void ratio ,
attenberg limits etc.. The percentage of consolidation can
be worked out from formulae.

To find bearing capacity of soils . Better option is
Standard penetration test

Even cone penetration values at many times are correlated to
N values. From this thing itself we could realise how strong
N values are above Cone penetration values

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