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Establishing Soil Profile

To design a shoring system, the user must create the soil profile (cross section) first.  If you are not familiar with creating a profile, please read the Line section. The dredge side must be on the left.  The wall face should still be a slope facing the left (x1<x2), even though it is near vertical.  The profile can include different soil strata, surcharges and water table.  Similar to performing a slope stability analysis, the soil properties must be assigned to each soil stratum.  Figure 40 shows a profile for shoring analysis.