Previously filled

Naturally, the question arises, what is the share of the participation of each of the considered processes in hardening soils around the piles. In the literature, only individual, sometimes contradictory, data indicating the absence of patterns are given in this subject. It is believed that at the beginning of the “hardening of the piles” consolidation dominates, and then tixotropic hardening; The evidence provides the fact that when the piles in moraine loams with water supply is immersed 70%, the sealing of the surrounding soil ended almost simultaneously with the immersion due to the elimination of pores previously filled with air.