Using Matlab6.1 platform and related visual program language
several promotions are presented to calculate foundation settlements by layerwise summation method. Initial additional stress formula and nonlinear least square method are used to calculate soil’s stress and void ratio
respectively. The settlement calculation depth and each layerwise thickness would not be constrained. Data’s input and output
calculate procedures are operated visually. The foundation settlement can be calculated out not by tables and figures but by visualization. It is shown that these promotions are practical to compute foundation settlement.