In the soil samples, information about the existing soil materials and their extent over the depth in a certain position of the terrain, the location of the soil sample, can be stored. The aim is to be able to generate the soil volume to be analyzed, the so-called soil masses, from the soil samples. The creation of soil samples is described in this section.
The soil samples can be found in the "Special Objects" folder in the Navigator and the associated input dialog can be opened from there. This dialog is shown in the figure below.
List
The list of the dialog contains all soil samples that were generated in the current model. All other fields of the entire input dialog contain the entries for the soil sample that is currently selected in the list.
The font color of the soil samples in the list contains the information according to the convention known from RFEM 6. Incorrectly defined objects appear in red font. If soil samples have not been used to generate a soil massif, they will appear in blue.
Name
The default setting is that the name of the soil sample is composed of the coordinates of the sample and the depth. However, user-defined names can also be assigned.
Coordinates
In order to describe the position of the respective soil sample, the global coordinates for the top edge of the soil sample are entered. This can be done in dialog or alternatively in a table. The Excel export and import are available for editing the coordinates in the tables.
Groundwater
A groundwater level can be defined for the location of the soil sample.
soil layers
The stratification of the soil starting from the upper edge of the specimen down to the depth of the lower edge of the specimen is to be defined in a table. To do this, you can select a floor material from the materials already defined in the model in the first column of the table or switch to the input dialog for materials to create a new floor material. One line corresponds to one shift.
The thickness of the respective soil layer of the sample can be entered in the second column of the table for the value of the thickness.
Video
The following video briefly shows the procedure for creating soil samples in RFEM 6.
