1 Influence of stone column installation on settlement reduction by Jorge Castro ( 1 )(*), Minna Karstunen ( 2 ) and Nallathamby Sivasithamparam ( 3 ) E-mail: ( 1 ) [email protected] ( 2 ) [email protected] ( 3 ) [email protected] ( 1 ) Lecturer, Department of Ground Engineering and Materials Science, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain ( 2 ) Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden & Docent, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland ( 3 ) Computational Geomechanics Division, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway & Plaxis B.V., Delft, The Netherlands (*) Corresponding author: Group of Geotechnical Engineering Department of Ground Engineering and Materials Science University of Cantabria Avda. de Los Castros, s/n 39005 Santander, Spain Tel.: +34 942 201813 Fax: +34 942 201821 e-mail: [email protected] Date: December 2013 Number of words: 6,000 Number of tables: 4 Number of figures: 16 brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by UCrea