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A series of finite difference analysis of the soft ground treatment with PVDs application has been performed with the application of the newly developed consolidation model. The model utilizes the concept of multi-compression indices and coefficients of consolidation to investigate the behaviors of the soft ground deposit on pore water pressure dissipation, surface and sub-layered ground settlement and to validate the newly developed CONSOPRO finite-difference procedure. Furthermore, the pre-consolidation pressures of the soft ground deposit are characterized with the combination of the piezocone penetration profiling and constant rate of strain consolidation tests under 0.02 %/min. on undisturbed samples which were retrieved at the investigated site, Saigon Premier Container Terminal (SPCT) in the South of Vietnam. On the comparison of the back-calculation results to the field observing data, the correlation between the coefficients of consolidation determined by constant-rate-of-strain (CRS) consolidation tests and those from piezocone dissipation tests, which were carried out after the soil improvement, is developed.

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