简介:Basedonconsolidationequationsproposedforunsaturatedsoil,ananalyticalsolutionfor1Dconsolidationofanunsaturatedsingle-layersoilwithnonhomogeneousmixedboundaryconditionisdeveloped.Themixedboundaryconditioncanbeusedforspecialapplications,suchastestsoccurinlaboratory.Theanalyticalsolutionisobtainedbyassumingallmaterialparametersremainconstantduringconsolidation.Inthederivationoftheanalyticalsolution,thenonhomogeneousboundaryconditionisfirsttransformedintoahomogeneousboundarycondition.Then,theeigenfunctionandeigenvaluearederivedaccordingtotheconsolidationequationsandthenewboundarycondition.Finally,usingthemethodofundeterminedcoefficientsandtheorthogonalrelationoftheeigenfunction,theanalyticalsolutionforthenewboundaryconditionisobtained.Thepresentmethodisapplicabletovarioustypesofboundaryconditions.Severalnumericalexamplesareprovidedtoinvestigatetheconsolidationbehaviorofanunsaturatedsingle-layersoilwithmixedboundarycondition.