Monitoring the staged construction of a submerged embankment on soft soil

The present paper illustrates the outcome of the monitoring of the consolidation behavior of a soft foundation soil under a large partially submerged sand embankment. Measurements of settlements and excess pore water pressures showed a good agreement with predictions evaluated using the large strain consolidation theory. The more conventional small strain theory was shown to overestimate the dissipation of pore water pressure and underestimate settlements.