Settlement prediction research on the gravel pile in soft soil subgrade

Settlement prediction methods of soft subgrade based on the soil mechanical theories and mathematical statistics\ud emerges in endlessly, but together with its limitations; the single theoretical calculation method maybe\ud sometimes good, sometimes bad without the capacity to consider the change of the load; however the study of\ud the theory of the combined forecast method is far from perfect. Under this situation, in view of the engineering\ud practice in soft soil subgrade deformation law research in order to put forward a reasonable settlement\ud prediction method, which is a problem urgently to be solved at present. Relying on gravel pile in soft soil\ud subgrade construction in the highway K9+420-K9+550 section, and analyzing the data measured according to\ud the soft soil foundation in the loading and constant loading period, taking classification of embankment load into\ud account, and based on the related parameters of soil at the same time using the numerical analysis of saturated\ud soft soil subgrade deformation-seepage coupling calculation, comparing the measured data with the finite\ud element results and checking the fit, based on detailed sedimentation data by using curve-fitting method for\ud calculating ultimate settlement value and compared with the finite element method settlement value for several\ud years under broaden embankment. The two values differ by 1.5cm, which is in a controllable range for soft soil.\ud Then thus the results are true and reliable in order to have implications for similar projects