@article{article_529066, title={Development of Correlations for Compression Index}, journal={Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi Fen Ve Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi}, volume={16}, pages={344–355}, year={2016}, author={Güllü, Hamza and Canakci, Hanifi and Alhashemy, Ali}, keywords={Compression index,Soil index property,Liquid limit,Initial void ratio,Correlation,Foundation settlement.}, abstract={<div>Compression index is one of the most important properties of soils widely used for estimation of </div> <div>settlement during design of foundations. In particular, for routine test requirements, limited laboratory </div> <div>facilities and preliminary evaluations, various equations are available in the literature to simply </div> <div>estimate the compression index using some soil index properties. However, applicability of these </div> <div>equations is often limited for the interested site due to their establishment from different databases. </div> <div>Thus, it is more realistic way to employ the correlations developed using local data of region, provided </div> <div>that data is available. In this viewpoint, this paper aims to develop correlations for the compression </div> <div>index dependent upon the soil index parameters of natural moisture content, liquid limit and initial void </div> <div>ratio for fine‐grained soil of Baghdad city. From the developed correlations, it is obtained that the best </div> <div>estimations of compression index is correlated by liquid limit as single variable, and by liquid limit and </div> <div>initial void ratio as double variable. It is clear that use of the developed correlations is more suitable </div> <div>specifically for Baghdad region for preliminary evaluations of foundation settlement </div>}, number={2}, publisher={Afyon Kocatepe University}