INFLUENCE OF THE SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF THE COEFFICIENT OF CONSOLIDATION ON THE ONE-DIMENSIONAL CONSOLIDATION OF SOFT SOILS

In this paper two methods of calculating the variance of the samples spatial means are used to study the influence of the self-correlation distance on the variation of the coefficient of consolidation.The analysis results indicate that the variability of the coefficient of consolidation increases with the self-correlation distance increasing.For different variabilities of the coefficient of consolidation of different soils,the influences on the average degree of one-dimensional consolidation are different.