Inverse Analysis of Total Settlement of Soft Soil Foundation FENG Zhong-ren 1,HUANG Wei 1,CHEN Ze-song 2,ZHAO Ming 2,XIONG Shu-fang 3 (1.School of Civil Engineering and Architecture,Wuhan University of Technology,Wuhan 430070,China; 2.Guangdong Road & Bridge Construction Development Co Ltd,Guangdong 510635,China; 3.Wuhan Jiang′an Municipal Construction Parent Company,Wuhan 430015,China)For construction built in soft soil region, the total settlement of soft soil is useful for construction. Because of the complexity of the characteristic of soil and some indetermination factor in survey and construction, calculating value is different from the prognosticate value. Method of back analysis can alleviate these problems to a certain degree. Therefore based on the on-the-spot data from the settlement on the soft soil, a back analysis method of total settlement is built, which fits either the single loading or the successive loading. According to the on-the-spot data coming from a settlement of a cross section of Guangwu freeway, we compute relevant parameters with the method. The theoretical models of the settlement are determined using the parameters and it shows consistency with the measured data and it proves that the model is reasonable.soft soil foundation; inverse analysis; entire settlement; analysis method of settlement