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Material Properties
To establish or change material properties, the user can click the Material button on the toolbar or from the top menu. The material setup form will appear. The material setup form contains six tables - Soil, Soil Bank, Geogrid, Geogrid Bank, Soil Nail, Soil Nail Bank, Strip, Strip Bank, Wall and Wall Bank, as well as Connection. The user can set soil properties, geogrid properties, soil nail properties, strip properties, wall properties and connection, in the Soil table, Geogrid table and Soil Nail table, Strip table, Wall table and Connection table, respectively. the user should first select the analysis type from the pull-down list, which can simplify the data input process, because some data may be not needed for a specific analysis. The data in the columns with double asterisks (**) is optional, only when the field conditions present. If multiple analyses will be performed, the user can choose the All Analyses option in the pull-down list to input the required parameters.