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Cumulative
Displacement
Plot
This is a plot of movement. Displacements appear abrupt because the horizontal
scale is not proportional to the vertical scale. However, this allows us to identify
displacements easily.
The cumulative displacement plot makes shear displacements easy to identify. If
there is no shear plane and the plot shows an overall tilt or distributed strain,
then interpretation is more difficult. In some cases, systematic accumulating
error could be responsible for the tilt.
Displacement plots become cluttered and difficult to analyze when too many
datasets are included. It is better to plot fewer rather than more datatsets.
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Cumulative Displacement (in) from 8/19/98
10/14/98
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3/17/99
4/22/99
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Cumulative Displacement (in) from 8/19/98
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3/17/99
4/22/99
Cumulative Displacement, A-Axis Cumulative Displacement, B-Axis
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Incremental
Displacement
Plots
This is a plot of movement at each reading interval. A spike indicates significant
movement. Growth in the spike indicates continued movement. This can be seen
in the spike at 234 feet.
The incremental displacement plot minimizes any systematic error, because each
plotted point contains only one instance of the error.
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-1.0 -0.6 -0.2 0.2 0.6 1.0
ncremental Displacement (in) from 8/19/98
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4/22/99
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-1.0 -0.6 -0.2 0.2 0.6 1.0
ncremental Displacement (in) from 8/19/98
10/14/98
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3/17/99
4/22/99
Incremental Displacement, A-Axis Incremental Displacement, B-Axis