{"id":2696,"date":"2018-05-08T15:07:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildsoftsupport.com\/?post_type=ht_kb&p=2696"},"modified":"2025-09-29T06:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:51:30","slug":"how-to-take-an-excavation-into-account","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/knowledge-base\/how-to-take-an-excavation-into-account\/","title":{"rendered":"How to take an excavation into account"},"content":{"rendered":"
EN<\/span>NL<\/span><\/div>
\nAn excavation means that the soil was consolidated, resulting in less settlement. By default, Diamonds will not take the excavation is not taken into account (= safest approach). It is up to the user to do the neccessary.<\/p>\n

Necessary adjustments<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Enter the soil layers starting from the original<\/strong> soil level<\/strong><\/span>.<\/li>\n
  2. Define the level of the ground water.
    \nNote: the groundwater level is only used to determine if Diamonds has to calculate with the dry or wet selfweight of the soil. It is up to the user to define water and soil pressures<\/a>.
    \n\"\"<\/li>\n
  3. The recompression index A<\/a> should be larger than the compression index C for sand, loam and slay soils.
    \n\"\"<\/li>\n
  4. Set the drainage coefficient CC to 0%<\/strong> for all soil layers.
    \nThis coefficient is a measure of how well the soil can remember the preload due to the excavation. 100% means that the soil has completely forgotten about the excavation. For example: you dig a well in prehistoric times and start building in it today. That ground has long forgotten that you ever dug a well there. 0% means that the soil can fully remember the excavation. For example: you dig a well today and start building in it tomorrow.
    \n\"\"<\/li>\n
  5. At some point settlement calculations must stop. Eurocode allows 2 standards:\n