San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 121
ely 5 feet thick, withsand on each side, the calculated time for theprimary consolidation to occur was 4.8 months.Very little settlement will take place after this time,and that will occur slowly. Some of the silty andclay layers of less thickness will consolidatewithin a month, and the more… … The amount of settlement due to the weight ofthe structure, and to the live loads imposed thereon,will depend on the depth of the footing beneaththe surface, the width of the footing, and the unitload on the base of the footing. The deeper thefooting is into the ground, the smaller the thicknessof…
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