TY - JOUR N2 - The presence of soft soil of river and organic genesis in the basement of road embankments creates problems related to their high deformability. Difficult to assess water permeability, affecting the course of the consolidation and settlement process, requires field studies, such as dilatometer tests. In engineering practice, there are many factors that can affect the basement consolidation process, but they are not simply applied to theoretical models. In many cases, only the observational method allows the selected computational approach to be applied to a specific engineering problem. For this reason, it is one of the approaches strongly emphasized by Eurocode 7. The article presents an example of the application of a temporary load from heavy construction traffic to the consolidation of soft soil under service roads with verification of the subsoil parameters using the dilatometer tests. A horizontal layer of weak soil, loaded with a vertical external load caused by temporary traffic, was assumed for the calculations. For such an arrangement, the classical solution of uniaxial Terzaghi’s consolidation with the water flow in the vertical direction was applied. A computational analysis of the consolidation time and maximum settlement values was performed. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/122015/PDF-MASTER/art36_corr_LR.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/122015 PY - 2021 IS - No 4 EP - 572 DO - 10.24425/ace.2021.138518 KW - soil improvement KW - static consolidation KW - settlements calculation KW - traffic load KW - dilatometer test DMT A1 - Bartnik, Grzegorz A1 - Kuszyk, Rafał A1 - Superczyńska, Małgorzata PB - WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING and COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VL - vol. 67 DA - 2021.12.30 T1 - Strengthening of the soft soil loaded with heavy construction traffic based on dilatometer tests SP - 559 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/122015 T2 - Archives of Civil Engineering ER -