1. A 4.0 meter high embankment will be placed over a saturated soil foundation that is 13.4 meters thick. What is the anticipated settlement based on the embankment being built with soil (y = 18.5 kN/m³)? %3D What if it is built with geofoam (y 0.18 kN/m³) and the combined soil-pavement covering above it is y = 19.0 kN/m³? In this case, the soil-pavement covering is 0.75 meters thick, while the geofoam fill is 3.25 meters thick. For this problem, assume the following material properties for the foundation soil: Y = 18.5 kN/m³ I eo = 0.71 Cc ranges from 0.25 to 1.5 (at 0.25 increments) → this represents different kinds of soils Compute the anticipated settlement for an embankment constructed with soil and for an embankment constructed with the geofoam for all the different foundation soil types.

1. A 4.0 meter high embankment will be placed over a saturated soil foundation that is 13.4 meters thick. What is the anticipated settlement based on the embankment being built with soil (y = 18.5 kN/m³)? %3D What if it is built with geofoam (y 0.18 kN/m³) and the combined soil-pavement covering above it is y = 19.0 kN/m³? In this case, the soil-pavement covering is 0.75 meters thick, while the geofoam fill is 3.25 meters thick. For this problem, assume the following material properties for the foundation soil: Y = 18.5 kN/m³ I eo = 0.71 Cc ranges from 0.25 to 1.5 (at 0.25 increments) → this represents different kinds of soils Compute the anticipated settlement for an embankment constructed with soil and for an embankment constructed with the geofoam for all the different foundation soil types.

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