3. There is a rectangular foundation, foundation soil stratification, self-weight stress and additional stress calculation results are shown below (stress in kPa), foundation soil compression test results are shown in the following table, the requirement of the basic formula of one-way compression using the sum of stratification method to calculate the compression of the second layer of soil. Results of foundation soil consolidation test p (kPa) 0 50 100 150 200 0.85 0.80 e 1.00 0.93 First layer Second layer The third laver 34 18 26 35 52 100 0.4m ¹0.4m 1.6m 0.77 0.9m

3. There is a rectangular foundation, foundation soil stratification, self-weight stress and additional stress calculation results are shown below (stress in kPa), foundation soil compression test results are shown in the following table, the requirement of the basic formula of one-way compression using the sum of stratification method to calculate the compression of the second layer of soil. Results of foundation soil consolidation test p (kPa) 0 50 100 150 200 0.85 0.80 e 1.00 0.93 First layer Second layer The third laver 34 18 26 35 52 100 0.4m ¹0.4m 1.6m 0.77 0.9m

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3. There is a rectangular foundation, foundation soil stratification, self-weight
stress and additional stress calculation results are shown below (stress in kPa),
foundation soil compression test results are shown in the following table, the
requirement of the basic formula of one-way compression using the sum of
stratification method to calculate the compression of the second layer of soil.
Results of foundation soil consolidation test
p (kPa)
0
200
e
1.00
First layer
Second layer
The third layer
50
34
48
0.93 0.85 0.80
18
100
26
27
35
150
52
100
0.4m
0.4m
0.6m
0.77
0.9m
C
C
t

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