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Compression constant 10

In engineering practice the natural logarithm with base is sometimes replaced by logarithm with base 10 when plotting the stress σef. In this case it is common to denote the compression constant with subscript 10: C10. Since it holds:

it is possible to derive a relationship between compression constant C and C10:

Arnold Verruijt (Soil Mechanics) offers the following values of compression constant:

Soil C C10
Sand 50 – 500 20 – 200
Silt 25 – 125 10 – 50
Clay 10 – 100 4 – 40
Peat 2 - 25 1 - 10



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