In this, the second part of their paper, O'Brien and Sharp discuss the proposed method and in an appendix give a worked example of calculation of total settlement. A notation table was published with the first part of this paper in the October issue of GE. It is recognised that the stress strain behaviour of soils is highly complex. The proposed method does not attempt to be comprehensive in the way it models soil behaviour, or mathematically rigorous, since this would preclude a simple approach appropriate for routine applications.
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