SOIL.DAT

Basic Information

File-Type

soil.dat

File-Form

FORMATTED

Version

V2.x / August 1999

Description-Date

July 2002

Significance of the File

contains a list of soil types together with the associated soil parameters; especially it can be used to define a sediment classification, e.g. the Udden-Wentworth-Scale.

File-Contents (in Catchwords)

1. class name (e.g. fine sand) of the soil to which a number of physically meaningful soil parameters is attached; please observe that

   • the class name must be unique.

2. material identification number for the soil type; please pay attention that

   • this number must be unique, similar to the class name above.

3. code of a physical parameter associated with the soil type as well as its value; please consider the following:

• for each soil type specified an arbitrary number of physical parameters can be chosen to describe soil qualities;
• within one type of soil each parameter may not occur more than once;
• the number of parameters associated with a soil type can vary form soil type to soil type;
• if this file is used to describe a sediment classification, grain size (code = 626) as well as grain density (code = 1136) must be prescribed.

Notice: valid code numbers for the physical parameters can be found in the configuration file $PROGHOME/cfg/phydef.cfg.de.dat.

An arbitrary number of soil types can be difined within a single file.

Notice: dictionary-file soil_untrim_dico.dat, normally present in directory $PROGHOME/dic/, will be automatically read by the application program in addition to the user-specified input file.

Programs using this Type of File

TELEMAC-2D, [SEDIMORPH], TRIM-2D, UNS, UNTRIM, UNTRIM2007

Example-File

please refer to $PROGHOME/examples/soil/soil.dat; if a sediment classification is described please refer to $PROGHOME/examples/lib/io_sediment/sediment_test_input.dat.

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