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hello in this lecture were going to learn some of the basics about the settlement and consolidation of soil under and induced stress so in the past few weeks in our 341 class we discuss weve been discussing a lot about different types of stresses weve introduced the idea of geostatic stresses remember that these are the stresses that the soil is feeling due to its own weight or to the weight of the soil above it weve also introduced the idea of induced stresses induced stresses are the stresses that we add to the soil because were building something whether a new embankment whether a new dam or levee or a new building that were putting on the soil so one of the things that geotechnical engineers are interested in doing is predicting how the soil is going to deform vertically when we apply these induced stresses when we if we want to predict what these deformations are called these these vertical deformations are what we refer to as settlement there are three types of settlement