A simple method to predict traffic-load-induced permanent settlement of road on soft subsoil

• Cyclic triaxial tests
• Dynamic stress
• Empirical model
• Multi-layer elastic theory
• Post-construction settlement
• Practical problems
• Prediction methods
• Repeated loads
• Residual strains
• Road design
• Road traffic
• SIMPLE method
• Soft clays
• Soft subsoil
• Test results
• Traffic loads