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Expanding DIGGS to include jet grouting and deep soil mixing
(2022-12-02) Schillage, Michael; El Mohtar, Chadi Said; Kumar, Krishna
The issue of data management is not unknown to the geotechnical engineering industry. In some instances, the storage of data includes an outdated file room cluttered with thousands of files haphazardly shuffled away. In others, data has been digitized to some extent, but the transfer of these files is not as efficient as it could be. Countless resources are wasted every year as data from previous explorations or construction activities are searched for or individually manipulated to fit the needs of current projects. In some instances, data is lost altogether and repeat explorations are required to be performed. Additionally, as data is produced even today, time and money are wasted on manipulating the data as it is shared between different members of the geotechnical community. Two parties using different applications or formatting techniques makes transferring and processing data difficult and time consuming. To combat these issues, the Data Interchange for Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists (DIGGS) project was created. This project was initially introduced to manage data from geotechnical explorations, but the ASCE Geo-Institute has been making a push in recent years to expand DIGGS to include data from construction activities as well. Work on DIGGS to expand its capacity to be able to organize data from grouting-related ground improvement activities began in 2021. The initial phase of this expansion was a success, and funding was granted by the Geo-Institute Special Projects Committee to continue this expansion in 2022. The details of this expansion are included in this report. The methods by which this expansion was carried out are detailed in this report, as well as a thorough explanation of the additions made to the DIGGS schema. The Continuous Grouting object was a paramount addition of this expansion, and the testing of this object among others is discussed in this report as well. For the first time, a data set was used to test the time series objects for grouting-related projects in this project. The instance document generated from this sample data set is included in the report and verifies the successful expansion of the DIGGS schema to include jet grouting and deep mixing projects.