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A 3 ft square footing carries a sustained load of 10 k. It is placed on the surface of a 30 ft thick saturated over consolidated clay underlain by dense sand. Based on laboratory tests, the clay can be adequately modeled using the e-log-p method. The laboratory tests provide the following compressibility information for the clay:
The groundwater table is located at the ground surface. Compute the settlement of the footing.
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