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GGU-TRENCH: Safety against groundwater ingress into the trench

GGU-TRENCH: Safety against groundwater ingress into the trench

The program calculates the pressure exerted by the slurry ps and the pressure exerted by the groundwater pw at the toe of the diaphragm wall. The FOS, eta(gw), is then

eta(gw) = ps / pw.

The old DIN 4126, (9.1.1) and DIN 4126:2013 (6.1) require a safety factor of 1.05.