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window gives some convenience and will also check your worksheet for errors before
you leave. Once you move to a new worksheet, to get to the navigation window, simply
click the Done-Navigate button and the navigation window will re-appear.
Instruction Worksheet
The instruction sheet gives a brief introduction to the Liquefaction spreadsheet. It
is also used as the default destination for any features still under development.
(usually Boring number or "Interpreted" use any word or brief statement you like. This
description is used later to help jog your memory about which profile you are using.
Other pieces of information include start and end depth, number of soil layers, depth to
groundwater, and unit weight of groundwater (saltwater or freshwater). For the number of
soil layers specified, the user must then fill in the remaining information.
Once the information is complete, click on the command button labeled "Accept
Changes" and the program will check to insure you have correctly entered your data. This
check is to eliminate obvious errors or impossible logic such as unit weights equal to 300
pcf or a layer that starts at 20-ft depth and ends at 10-ft depth. More subtle errors are
beyond the scope of this (and any) software.
The user may generate a profile either manually or automatically by clicking the
"Add Profile" command button. Once clicked, the program prompts for which profile to
copy and produces a replicate profile. The user can then go in and manually change
values in the profile. The values may also be "calculated once" values such as an average
of values from a different profile. Once the profile is manipulated (say by deleting a
previous profile) only the value remains, the formula is lost. While such formulations
aren't common for soil profiles, interpreted profiles may require formulas. Field profiles
(discussed next) can also make very good use of small formulations to, say, take an
average of blow counts for a given layer or increase all cone tip readings by a factor of
1.2.
If you get a message similar to that shown in figure 1. You must do the following: