The effect of the additional load on the ground support on the settlement of the surrounding ground

Based on the existing engineering examples, this paper uses numerical simulation combined with the actual monitoring values on site to study the effect of the additional load on the support and the settlement of the surrounding ground, and the following conclusions are drawn: (1) When the enclosure structure is good, the settlement curve generally assumes a “spoon shape”. As the distance from the foundation pit increases, the surface settlement curve first increases and then decreases. The distance between the location of the maximum surface settlement and the foundation pit is generally half of the maximum excavation depth of the foundation pit. (2) The existence of additional load accelerates the rate of change of surface settlement, making the soil settlement from the excavation of the first layer of soil as a whole smaller than the unacted additional load to the excavation to the bottom layer as a whole larger than the unapplied load. (3) There will be a certain gap between the numerical simulation and the actual monitoring value. This gap will become larger and larger as the excavation of the foundation pit continues, but the law of change between the two is the same.