A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering of the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.

Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1977

An attempt was made to present a detailed description of some methods of settlement analysis, namely the stress path method, the elastic method, the critical state theory, Garlanger's method and Gibson & Lo's method. The rate of settlement was analyzed by employing a multi-layered model and a finite difference solution. These methods were than applied to predict the settlement of a test embankment at Nong Ngoo Hao using various stress distribution models, i.e. those proposed by Gray, Poulos, Holl, Perloff and Westergaard. The analysis showed that the predicted immediate settlements computed by the elastic method were fairly close to the measured values. For large values of time, the predicted total settlements obtained by stress path and by elastic method and using the stress distribution model by Holl were fairly close to the measured values, especially for a low embankment, while the critical state theory together with Holl's stress distribution model yielded fairly close agreement for high embankment. For the prediction of initial excess pore pressures, Henkel's expression together with Poulos' stress distribution resulted in the closest agreement between predicted and measured values.