Paper review: Consolidation Is Just Hydraulics – A Dissenting View Worth Taking Seriously

We found a recent paper by the Laboratoire d’essais, d’études et d’expertises (L3E) to be particularly interesting. Here’s a quick summary on this novel work and how we see its potential practical implications for geotechnical engineering applications. The standard model of one-dimensional consolidation has been largely settled since Terzaghi formalised it in 1923. Load is applied,…