List of top Geotechnical Engineering Questions on Time rate of consolidation asked in GATE CE

For a clayey soil stratum, the time required for degree of consolidation from 25 % to 50 % is 30 days.

The total time (in days) required for 90 % degree of consolidation of the same soil stratum is (rounded off to the nearest integer).

In an oedometer apparatus a specimen of fully saturated clay has been consolidated under a vertical pressure of 100 kPa and is at equilibrium state. Immediately on increasing the vertical pressure to 150 kPa, the effective stress \( \sigma' \) and excess pore water pressure \( \Delta u \) will be

The total primary consolidation settlement (S_c) of a building constructed on a 10 m thick saturated clay layer is estimated to be 50 mm. After 300 days of the construction of the building, primary consolidation settlement was reported as 10 mm. The additional time (in days) required to achieve 50% of S_c will be _____ (rounded off to the nearest integer).

A raft foundation of \( 30 \, \text{m} \times 25 \, \text{m} \) is proposed to be constructed at a depth of 8 m in a sand layer. A 25 mm thick saturated clay layer exists 2 m below the base of the raft foundation. Below the clay layer, a dense sand layer exists at the site. A 25 mm thick undisturbed sample was collected from the mid-depth of the clay layer and tested in a laboratory oedometer under double drainage condition. It was found that the soil sample had undergone 50 % consolidation settlement in 10 minutes.
The time (in days) required for 25 % consolidation settlement of the raft foundation will be \(\underline{\hspace{2cm}}\). (round off to the nearest integer)

A saturated compressible clay layer of thickness h is sandwiched between two sand layers, as shown in the figure. Initially, the total vertical stress and pore water pressure at point P, which is located at the mid-depth of the clay layer, were 150 kPa and 25 kPa, respectively. Construction of a building caused an additional total vertical stress of 100 kPa at P. When the vertical effective stress at P is 175 kPa, the percentage of consolidation in the clay layer at P is _________ \text{. (in integer)}