Research Article

Estimating the Climate-Controlled Soil Parameters and the Distorted Mound Shape for Analysis of Stiffened Rafts on Expansive Soils

Table 2

Calculated , , , and for expansive soils at different locations in the KSA.

No.Location from Equation (1) from Figure 1 at
(%)(bars)

1Tayma20.254.974973.701.705.01−15.00
2Tabuk20.2512.711,2714.101.907.94−21.00
3Al-Ghat15.7524.552,4554.391.614.07−27.80
4Al-Ghat22.5031.623,1624.501.503.16−30.00
5Madina29.2525.292,5294.401.603.98−28.00
6Madina27.7512.331,2334.091.918.13−14.50
7Hofuf18.0036.813,6814.571.432.69−31.60