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Secondary consolidation starts in the range of primary consolidation itself.

(a) True

(b) False

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This interesting question is from Secondary Consolidation and Three Dimensional Consolidation topic in portion One Dimensional Consolidation of Geotechnical Engineering I

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Easiest explanation: Secondary consolidation starts in the range of primary consolidation itself, although ots magnitude is very small. This is one of the reason why the experimental curve is in agreement with the Terzaghi’s theory up to U=60%.

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