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

Table 3

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

No.	Location			from Figure 2	from Equation (5)	(m) from Equation (7)
					0.1	0.05	0.01
					1	Tayma	0.57	2.06	0.008	3.731E − 03	3.28	3.93	5.43
2	Tabuk	0.76	1.05	0.073	2.410E − 03	2.72	3.24	4.45
3	Al-Ghat	0.56	0.78	0.043	2.648E − 03	2.72	3.27	4.53
4	Al-Ghat	0.49	0.74	0.069	2.462E − 03	2.57	3.10	4.31
5	Madina	1.03	1.14	0.104	2.113E − 03	2.43	2.91	4.04
6	Madina	0.66	1.01	0.111	2.277E − 03	2.65	3.15	4.32
7	Hofuf	0.97	1.11	0.060	2.699E − 03	2.66	3.20	4.48