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The finished product of this tutorial can be found in the file Tutorial 01
Quick Start.s3z in the Examples > Tutorials folder in the Settle3D
installation folder.
Topics covered
Deformed contours
Graph query
Info Viewer
Drawing tools
Introduction
Before we start the tutorial, you should be familiar with the following
general information about Settle3D.
Program Assumptions
There are several important assumptions and limitations that must be
considered when using Settle3D:
In the Horizontal Soil Layers mode, all soil layers are assumed to
be horizontal and continuous. It is not possible to specify non-
horizontal soil geometry. In the Multiple Boreholes mode, non-
horizontal soil strata can be defined, but the ground surface is
assumed to be horizontal.
Program Interface
In order to carry out the various modeling and interpretation tasks,
Settle3D provides two distinct views:
If you have not already done so, run Settle3D by double-clicking on the
Settle3D icon in your installation folder. Or from the Start menu, select
Programs Rocscience Settle3D 3.0 Settle3D.
Note that when the Settle3D program is started, a new blank document is
already opened, allowing you to begin creating a model immediately.
Project Settings
The Project Settings dialog allows you to enter project information, set
the unit system and specify other general analysis parameters.
Open the Project Settings dialog from the toolbar or the Analysis
menu and make sure the General tab is selected. Set the Stress units =
Metric, stress as kPa and the Settlement units = millimeters.
Click on the Project Summary tab and enter Quick Start Tutorial as the
project title. Click OK to save your input and exit the dialog.
Adding a Load
From the Loads menu, choose Add Circular Load. Alternatively you
can click the circular load icon in the toolbar as shown on the left. For the
rest of the tutorial, equivalent toolbar icons will be shown in the margin
beside the relevant text.
In the Define Load dialog, change the circle radius to 7 m. We will use the
default load magnitude of 10 kPa, Load Type = Flexible and depth = 0
(i.e. load is placed on the ground surface). Click OK to close the dialog.
You will now see a circle that needs to be placed somewhere on the Plan
View. You can click the mouse to place the circular load, or alternatively
you can enter the coordinates in the prompt line at the bottom right of
the screen.
Enter 5,5 and hit Enter to place the centre of the circular load at the
coordinates 5,5 in the Plan View.
You should now see the circular load in both the Plan View (left) and 3D
View (right). You can zoom to the extent of boundaries by selecting the
Zoom All toolbar button or pressing the F2 function key.
Soil Layers
The 3D view shows a soil layer with a default thickness of 20 meters. It is
assumed that rigid bedrock lies below the soil. In this section we will
learn how to change the soil properties and layer geometry.
Soil Properties
Select Soil Properties from the toolbar or the Soils menu, and enter the
following properties under the first tab of the dialog.
Change the name of the soil to Medium Clay. Leave the default
Unit Weight of 18 kN/m3.
You can use the checkboxes to enable or disable the input for
Immediate Settlement, Primary Consolidation or Secondary
Consolidation. If a checkbox is selected, then the corresponding
settlement type will be computed for that material. By default
only the Primary Consolidation checkbox is selected.
Layer Thickness
To define the thickness and sequence of the soil layers select Soil Layers
from the toolbar or Soils menu. Here you can add layers of different
material and change their thickness. We will specify only one layer of
material but we will change the thickness to 25 m. The dialog should look
like this.
TIP: if you wish to view the location of the field points, go to View
Query Display Options and under the Field Point Grid tab, choose a
symbol other than None.
View Options
Within the Plan/3D View, you can quickly maximize the Plan
View or the 3D View by double-clicking in the desired view.
You can also select the toolbar shortcut buttons Expand Plan
View , Expand 3D View , Split Plan/3D View - to
maximize the Plan View, the 3D View, or restore the split-screen
format.
You can easily zoom in or out by rotating the mouse wheel forward or
backward.
You can quickly pan the views by holding down the mouse wheel and
dragging the mouse.
Rotate 3D View
You can rotate the 3D View by holding down the left mouse button and
dragging the mouse in the 3D View.
Reset View
If you want to reset the default viewing angle of the model in the 3D
View, right-click in the view and select Reset View from the popup menu.
A variety of other viewing and display options are available through the
right-click menu, the sidebar and other shortcuts, these can be explored
after completing this tutorial.
Results Visualization
Total Settlement
You should be looking at contours of total settlement in the Plan view
and 3D View. Under the Contour Legend in the Sidebar you can see that
the maximum settlement is 33.2 mm. You can visualize this displacement
in the 3D view by selecting the Deformed Contours checkbox in the
View Controls in the Sidebar. If you rotate the 3D view (hold down the
left mouse button and move the mouse), then you should see a screen like
this:
TIP: you can change the contour range, interval and color scheme by
choosing Contour Options from the toolbar, View menu or right-click
menu.
Turn off the deformed contour display, and reset the depth control to
zero.
For this example, the Total Settlement is the sum of the Immediate
Settlement and Consolidation (long-term or ultimate) Settlement.
Therefore plotting either one of these will show less displacement than
the Total Settlement. In this case, the maximum immediate settlement is
11.1 mm and the maximum consolidation settlement is 22.1 mm. As you
can see from the contours, these values occur at the center of the flexible
circular load.
You can also plot the Loading Stress or Total Stress. The Loading stress
is simply the stress due to the load, whereas the Total Stress is the
Loading Stress plus the stress due to gravity (i.e. self-weight of the soil).
Queries
To obtain results at specific locations, you can add Query Points or Query
Lines. These allow you to graphically plot data versus depth or horizontal
distance, at any location in the model.
Query Points
From the toolbar or the Query menu, select Add Query Point. You will
see the Query Point dialog as shown.
A Query Point is actually a vertical line that divides the soil layer(s) into
sub-layers (divisions). Stress and displacement are calculated for each
sub-layer. More divisions generally produce more accurate results. This
dialog allows you to specify the number of divisions for each layer.
Click OK and the cursor will become a cross-hair in the Plan View. You
now need to specify the location of the Query Point on the surface. You
can click the mouse at the desired location or you can manually enter
coordinates in the prompt line at the bottom right of the screen. Enter the
coordinates 5 5 to place the Query Point at the centre of the circular load.
If you are still viewing Total Settlement, your screen should now look like
this.
In the 3D View you can see the Total Settlement plotted along the
vertical line represented by the query point.
To graph the query data select Graph Query from the Query menu.
Select the Query Point using the mouse and hit Enter. You will see the
following dialog:
Choose Total Settlement if it is not already selected and hit OK. You
should now see a graph that looks like this:
Query Lines
Toggle back to the model view by clicking the Plan / 3D View tab at the
bottom left of the screen. From the Query menu select Add Query Line.
You are first prompted for the number of horizontal divisions. Leave the
default value of 20. As with a Query Point, you are also prompted for the
number of vertical divisions. This time select Evenly Spaced Divisions
and change the number to 25.
The Query line will appear on the Plan View with bars giving the Total
Settlement along the line. The minimum and maximum values are shown
numerically. The 3D View will show a vertical cross-section with
contours of Total Settlement. To see this more clearly, turn off the Point
Query display (clear the checkbox next to Point Queries in the Sidebar
under View Controls), and rotate the model in the 3D View until the
screen looks as follows:
You can plot the data by selecting Query Graph Query and selecting
the query line (or by right-clicking on the line and choosing Graph
Query). Choose the data you wish to plot (Total Settlement) and click OK.
You will see a graph showing the Total Settlement versus horizontal
distance along the line, at the current depth.
You can change the depth of the line by using the depth control in the
Sidebar of the Plan View. You can also change the data being plotted
using the drop-list in the toolbar. Close any extra windows so that only
the Plan View window and query line chart windows are open. Tile the
windows so that they look like the window below.
Click on the Plan View window, and the depth control sidebar will
appear. Change the depth to 5m. Both the Plan View and Chart View
results will change to those at 5m. Click on the Chart View and change
the dropdown results type to Loading Stress. Click on the Plan View
window and do the same. You are now looking at the contour and query
line results for Loading Stress at a depth of 5m. The window should look
like the figure below.
TIP: you can export this data to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet by simply
right-clicking on the graph and choosing Chart in Excel. If you prefer
another spreadsheet program, then choose Copy Data to Clipboard and
you will be able to paste it into any Windows program.
Info Viewer
Select the Info Viewer option from the toolbar or the View menu.
The Info Viewer Controls in the sidebar allow you to customize the
information which is displayed in the Info Viewer, and the appearance of
the information (e.g. fonts, colours, etc).
Drawing Tools
As a final exercise, we will mention the Drawing Tools which allow you to
add a variety of drawing objects to the Plan View. For example, you can
add a table of soil properties as follows:
1. Switch back to the Plan/3D View, and select the Soil Properties
Table option from the toolbar.
2. Click the mouse in the Plan View to add the table, as shown in
the figure below.
This concludes the Quick Start Tutorial; you may now exit the Settle3D
program.