TEORÍA DE CONSOLIDACIÓN, UNA REVISIÓN DE LA LITERATURA

The objective of this present research is a literary review of 60 bibliographic references of which 46 are articles from journals indexed in the Scopus and Scielo databases, 13 books and 01 theses that support the evolution of the proposed one-dimensional consolidation theory. by Terzaghi in 1925 to predict the settlements resulting from the decrease in voids due to the partial and total expulsion of water. Over time, this theory took greater theoretical support and is used in many geotechnical and civil projects for the calculation of settlements to through finite element programs such as PLAXIS and FLAC 3D. It is concluded that great advances have been made in modeling the hydromechanical behavior of the soil in finite element programs in order to explain the heterogeneity of the soil and explain the interaction it must have with the superstructure.