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Geotechnical Monitoring

Enter readings from settlement plates, piezometers, inclinometers and survey prisms. The studio plots them, forecasts the final settlement by Asaoka's observational method and Tan's hyperbolic method, works out the pore pressure ratio and its dissipation, the inclinometer displacement and rate, and the prism movement vectors — then compares everything with alert and alarm trigger levels and writes a weekly green / amber / red status report with the recommended actions, charts, calculation sheets and Excel.

Scope & limitations

Monitoring interpretation for review by the designer. The default readings are illustrative examples, not site data; trigger levels and contingency actions must come from the project monitoring plan.

What the Geotechnical Monitoring Studio does

Settlement plates: readings after the chosen day are resampled at equal intervals and fitted by Asaoka's method (si = β0 + β1 si−1, final settlement β0 / (1 − β1)) and by Tan's hyperbolic method; the mean forecast is compared with the design final settlement, and the recent rate with the alert and alarm rates.

Piezometers: excess pore pressure is divided by the fill load to give the pore pressure ratio B̄; a ratio approaching one points to yielding of the clay. The studio reports the peak ratio, the dissipation since the last lift and the rate of rise.

Inclinometers and prisms: the cumulative displacement profile of two surveys gives the maximum movement and its rate; prism movements give horizontal vectors and vertical settlement since the baseline, each compared with its trigger levels.

Output: charts of each instrument, the Asaoka plot, a weekly status table with green, amber or red and the recommended action, a schematic 3D layout, PDF calculation sheets and Excel.