Geotechnical Engineering Mathalino !!top!!

She flipped her yellow pad. "Look at the (FS). For highway embankments, FS must be 1.5 against bearing failure. Right now, FS = (q_ult/q_allowable) = 120/200 = 0.6. That is not an FS. That is a recipe for a sinkhole."

She did a quick calculation using Terzaghi’s 1D Consolidation Theory : geotechnical engineering mathalino