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The response of a saturated soil foundation to an embankment load is studied with FLAC. The soil behavior is represented by a Cam-clay material model. The pore pressure build up and dissipation in the foundation soil and the settlement beneath the embankment are calculated during undrained and drained loading. This is a fully coupled mechanical-fluid flow calculation.

Keywords:

• Saturated soil
• fluid flow coupling
• Drained and undrained responses
• Embarkment settlement
• Cam-Clay model

Materials:

• Soil
• Water

Analyses:

• Fluid Flow
• Static