# Controlling Conditions of the One-Dimensional Consolidation Test on Peat Soil
## 2 Materials and Methods
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**Purpose** & **Specimen** & **Organic Matter Content** & **Location** & **LOI** & **Specific** & **Density** & **Moisture** & **Saturation** \\  & & & **(\%)** & **Gravity** & **(g/cm\({}^{3}\))** & **Content (\%)** & **(\%)** \\ \hline \multirow{4}{*}{Effect of test temperature} & T\({}_{1}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 58.8 & 1.98 & 1.09 & 217.14 & 90.32 \\  & T\({}_{2}\) & Low organic peaty soil & & 21.4 & 2.20 & 1.49 & 62.36 & 98.7 \\  & T\({}_{3}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 48.8 & 1.93 & 1.25 & 140.94 & 98.21 \\  & T\({}_{4}\) & Low organic peaty soil & & 32.1 & 1.89 & 1.25 & 162.05 & 99.57 \\ \hline \multirow{4}{*}{Effect of test temperature} & S\({}_{1}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 42.6 & 1.9 & 1.27 & 167.31 & 98.52 \\  & S\({}_{2}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 41.8 & 1.98 & 0.92 & 177.15 & 72.04 \\  & S\({}_{3}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 40.2 & 1.9 & 1.23 & 175.15 & 98.44 \\  & S\({}_{4}\) & Medium organic peaty soil & & 33.0 & 1.9 & 1.31 & 96.17 & 92.85 \\  & S\({}_{5}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 41.1 & 1.89 & 1.25 & 162.05 & 99.57 \\  & S\({}_{6}\) & Medium organic peaty soil & & 33.1 & 1.89 & 1.3 & 117.98 & 98.61 \\  & thymol & S\({}_{7}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 48.8 & 1.93 & 1.25 & 140.94 & 98.21 \\  & S stands for & S\({}_{8}\) & Peat & & 61.6 & 1.93 & 1.21 & 175.74 & 98.37 \\  & use method & J\({}_{1}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 41.2 & 1.08 & 362.75 & 95.82 \\  & \(\circ\)\(\circ\)\(\)\(\circ\)\(\)\(\downarrow\) stands & J\({}_{2}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 44.1 & 1.03 & 269.70 & 87.31 \\  & for use & J\({}_{3}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 59.2 & & 1.28 & 128.50 & 98.04 \\  & method \(\oplus\)) & J\({}_{4}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 55.8 & & 1.29 & 109.48 & 94.69 \\  & J\({}_{5}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 50.3 & 1.87 & 1.23 & 114.16 & 89.75 \\  & J\({}_{6}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 47.0 & & 1.29 & 119.50 & 97.22 \\  & J\({}_{7}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 43.8 & & 1.31 & 117.51 & 97.23 \\ \cline{2-7}  & S\({}_{9}\) & Peat & & 66.5 & & 1.09 & 251.06 & 91.56 \\  & S\({}_{10}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 55.8 & & 1.14 & 222.25 & 95.14 \\ \hline \multirow{4}{*}{Effect of specimen height} & H\({}_{1}\) & Mucky soil & West Lake, Dali & 5.4 & 2.18 & 1.71 & 51.21 & \multirow{4}{*}{-} \\  & H\({}_{2}\) & Low organic peaty soil & Eryuan, Dali & 20.8 & 2.08 & 1.388 & 103.26 & \multirow{4}{*}{-} \\  & H\({}_{3}\) & Medium organic peaty soil & & 34.7 & 2.01 & 1.18 & 203.54 & \multirow{4}{*}{-} \\  & H\({}_{4}\) & Highly organic peaty soil & & 56 & 1.93 & 1.04 & 338.25 & \\  & H\({}_{5}\) & Peat & & 75.2 & 1.87 & 0.92 & 590.8 & \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Physical and mechanical properties. \begin{table}
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**Purpose** & **Specimen** & **Height** & **Ambient Temperature** & **Thymol** & **Local Level (kPa) and Loading Time** & **Total Time** \\  & & **(\({}^{\circ}\)C)** & **(\%)** & **(\%)** & **(\%)** \\ \hline \multirow{4}{*}{Effect of test temperature} & T\({}_{1}\) & & & & 12.5-25 (79 h per level) & 6.5 \\  & T\({}_{2}\) & & & 12.5-25 (24 h)-25 (24 h)-100 (24 h)-200 & 8.2 \\  & T\({}_{3}\) & 20 & Uncontrolled & 0 & (24 h)-400 (24 h)-800 (53 h) & 8.2 \\  & T\({}_{4}\) & & & & 12.5 (24 h)-25 (24 h)-50 (24 h)-100 (24 h)-200 & 8.2 \\ \cline{1-1}  & & & & & (24 h)-400 (24 h)-800 (53 h) & \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 2: Test plan and loading sequence.