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In this paper, a multiscale finite element framework is developed based on the first-order homogenization method for fully coupled saturated porous media using an extension of the Hill-Mandel theory in the presence of microdynamic effects. The multiscale method is employed for the consolidation problem of a 2-dimensional saturated soil medium generated from the periodic arrangement of circular particles embedded in a square matrix, which is compared with the direct numerical simulation method. The effects of various issues, including the boundary conditions, size effects, particle arrangements, and the integral domain constraints for the microscale boundary value problem, are numerically...