GATE Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 Shift 1 Solved Paper

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A 20 m thick clay layer is sandwiched between a silty sand layer and a gravelly sand layer. The layer experiences 30 mm settlement in 2 years.
Given:
Tv={π4(U100)2forU≤60%1.781−0.933log10(100−U)forU>60%.
Where Tv is the time factor and U is the degree of consolidation in %.
If the coefficient of consolidation of the layer is 0.003 cm2/s, the deposit will experience a total of 50 mm settlement in the next _______________ years.
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