(Solved): Estimate the primary consolidation settlement at the North and South sides of the tower foundation c ...

Estimate the primary consolidation settlement at the North and South sides of the tower foundation caused by the applied load. The settlement of sand layers is negligible and thus can be ignored from this analysis. When conducting this analysis, students must divide the upper clay layer into six sublayers and the lower clay layer into seven. Furthermore, the preconsolidation stress for the upper clay is assumed to be independent of depth and the stress increase across each sublayer caused by the applied load can be assumed to be equivalent to the stress increase at the midpoint of each sublayer, which can be computed using the contact pressure distribution given in Figure 4 with the influence factor ???????? interpolated from Table 4. HOW TO CALCULATE effective stress being calculated at the midpoint of each PLEASE