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An important problem of soil mechanics practice is the prediction of the settlements of a structure built on the soil. For a homogeneous isotropic linear elastic material the deformations could be calculated using the theory of elasticity. That is a completely consistent theory, leading to expressions for the stresses and the displacements. However, solutions are available only for a half space and a half plane, not for a layered material (at least not in closed form). Therefore in this chapter an approximate solution is considered.
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Verruijt, A. (2018). Layered Soil. In: An Introduction to Soil Mechanics. Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61185-3_30
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