Perform a statistical analysis to evaluate the variability of soil properties and study the effect of empirical equations on consolidation settlement

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Properties of a soil may vary continuously from one spot to another .

In this work there were presented results of data that have been collected from many projects to evaluate variability of these properties and reliability of empirical equations on soil settlement predictions.

Statistical analysis was carried out, based on 200 soil samples from sites located throughout Benghazi city were studied and analyzed.

Some of the soil properties examined include the water content, void ratio, Atterberg limits, and compression index.

The study results stated that the soil properties varied significantly across Benghazi city.

It is difficult to find good correlation between the properties due to the scatter in data, and the use of empirical equations may result in very unrealistic settlement predictions.