As a kind of weak foundation treatment method, vacuum preloading (VP) combined with
prefabricated vertical drain (PVD) has been used in practical engineering successfully. The …

Soil engineering or ground engineering, more commonly called geotechnical engineering,
is a branch of civil engineering that deals with soil, rocks and underground water, and their …

Much of the world's essential infrastructure is built along congested coastal belts that are
composed of highly compressible and weak soils up to significant depths. Soft alluvial and …

During the past decade, the application of vacuum preloading for stabilizing soft coastal clay
and other low-lying estuarine soils has become popular in Australia. The cost-effectiveness …

The vacuum preloading method is widely applied in dredged sludge reinforcement,
however, prefabricated vertical drain (PVD) clogging affects the effectiveness of ground …

Application of vacuum assisted preloading is an imperative method when a considerable
load is required to meet the desired rate of settlement and an increase in the undrained …

This paper presents the effectiveness of vacuum preloading in accelerating the
consolidation of PVD improved soft Bangkok clay by comparing with the corresponding …

This paper presents the study of PVD improved reconstituted specimen with and without
vacuum preloading on large-scale consolidometer in the laboratory tests. Subsequently, the …

This paper presents the performance of improved soft Bangkok clay with prefabricated
vertical drains (PVDs) combined with embankment preloading (conventional PVD method) …

A system of vertical drains with combined vacuum and surcharge preloading is an effective
method for promoting radial flow, which accelerates soil consolidation. This study presents …