Development of Correlations for Compression Index

Year 2016, Volume: 16 Issue: 2, 344 - 355, 30.04.2016

Hamza Güllü , Hanifi Canakci Ali Alhashemy

Abstract

Compression index is one of the most important properties of soils widely used for estimation of

settlement during design of foundations. In particular, for routine test requirements, limited laboratory

facilities and preliminary evaluations, various equations are available in the literature to simply

estimate the compression index using some soil index properties. However, applicability of these

equations is often limited for the interested site due to their establishment from different databases.

Thus, it is more realistic way to employ the correlations developed using local data of region, provided

that data is available. In this viewpoint, this paper aims to develop correlations for the compression

index dependent upon the soil index parameters of natural moisture content, liquid limit and initial void

ratio for fine‐grained soil of Baghdad city. From the developed correlations, it is obtained that the best

estimations of compression index is correlated by liquid limit as single variable, and by liquid limit and

initial void ratio as double variable. It is clear that use of the developed correlations is more suitable

specifically for Baghdad region for preliminary evaluations of foundation settlement

Keywords

Compression index, Soil index property, Liquid limit, Initial void ratio, Correlation, Foundation settlement.

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