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16 The data visualization tools available to the practicing geotechnical engineer range from simple x-y graphing programs to sophisticated software systems that integrate multiple graphics tools with complex databases and data and image acquisition software. Visualization software is available in proprietary and open-source formats.
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17 Approximately 80% of the DOTs surveyed use the same vendor's boring log generator. FENCE DIAGRAM GENERATORS The fence diagram is the geotechnical engineer's secondorder method of visualizing and presenting subsurface information as it merges the information from several subsurface explorations to create a cross-sectional view of soil or rock layering, groundwater location, and material properties (see Figure 13)
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18 Approximately 70% of the DOTs surveyed use the same vendor's fence diagram generator. LABORATORY SOFTWARE Laboratory software includes programs to control laboratory tests, record laboratory data, convert the data to meaningful engineering units, and visualize and present laboratory test results.
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19 GENERAL PURPOSE CONTOURING SOFTWARE Contouring software is used to visualize three-dimensional data. The most frequent geotechnical use concerns ground surface topography and subsurface contacts, but the contouring is also useful for visualizing multi-dimensional data relationships; for example, contours of limit equilibrium factor of safety against sliding for a range of cohesion and angle of friction values.
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20 a single purpose application that reduces instrument readings to engineering units and presents the results as a visual representation of displacement versus depth. Other instrumentation software is more general, serving a variety of instrument types and providing at minimum rudimentary graphing capabilities for data visualization.
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