Tutorial : Create a drilling and display associated logs
Introduction
What:
This tutorial will show you how to:
- Create a drilling,
- add associated logs to the drilling,
- display the logs through geotechnical software Elk,
- export a drilling and associated logs to pdf file.
Level: indermediate
Expected time: 25 minutes
Required:
- Elk version # 0.9.0 or higher,
- Download and unzip the file: 'shg-drilling.zip'
- Have already created and open an Elk project, and be located
in Manage perspective(detailed in
tutorial 1 of Elk
) :
Suggested:
- Configure Elk with your organisation logo (Elk - Tutorial 3).
Create a drilling
At the creation of an Elk project, the software is located by default in the 'Manage' perspective.
Click on the 'Geo-located objects' tab(Fig 1).
Expand 'In-situ tests' category.
Mouse right-click on 'Drillings'.
A popup menu shows up. Mouse left-click on 'New | by editing'. (Fig 2)
A dialog shows up. Please provide the following parameters: (Fig 3)
- Name: Drilling 1,
- Lat-Lon: 45.1912 - 0.2723
Then click 'Ok' button.
Drilling 1 is added in software platform Elk (Fig 4)
Add a log to the drilling
Open 'Drilling 1', by mouse left-click before tree node (Fig 5)
Drilling 1 tree shows up.
Mouse right-click on 'Logs'.
A popup menu shows up. Mouse left-click on 'New log' (Fig 6).
A dialog called 'Elk - New drilling's log' shows up (Fig 7).
Open the file 'GAMMA_RAY.xls' with any spreadsheet program.
Select and copy the data corresponding to Depth (m) and gamma ray (cps) (Fig 8).
Go back in Elk software.
In the dialog 'Elk - New drilling's log':
Mouse left-click on the editable cell below 'Depth (m)' in order to activate it.
Paste the data using the shortcut 'Ctrl+V' (Fig 9).
Input the following parameters:
- Name : 'gamma ray'
- Unit : 'cps'
Then click on 'Ok' button.
The gamma ray log is added to the drilling (Fig 10).
Repeat step describe in 'Add a log to the drilling' in order to create:
- PI: use the file 'PI.xls', unit: bar.
- PO: use the file 'PO.xls', unit: bar.
- PR: use the file 'PR.xls', unit: bar.
- VIA: use the file 'VIA.xls', unit: >m/h.
All logs should then be added to the drilling (Fig 11).
Display the drilling with associated logs
In Elk menubar click on 'Perspectives | Switch to "Run"' (Fig 12).
By default Elk is located on 'Welcome' tab.
Mouse left-click on 'Process' tab (Fig 13).
Mouse right-click on 'Logs'.
A popup menu shows up. Mouse left-click on 'Show in new logs viewer' (Fig 14).
Elk logs viewer 'Drilling 1 log viewer #1' shows up.
Mouse left click on Tile windows button to enlarge the viewer (Fig 15).
Use horizontal scrollbar to visualise the logs (Fig 16).
From Elk menubar click on 'View | Just show process desktop' (Fig 17).
From logs viewer menubar click on 'View | Just show display' (Fig 18).
In viewer control pane, uncheck 'PO' and 'PR' (Fig 19).
Export to pdf the drilling and associated logs
In Elk menubar click on 'Perspectives | Switch to "Manage"' (Fig 20).
In 'In-situ tests' category, mouse right-click on 'Drilling 1'.
A popup menu shows up, mouse left-click on 'Export to PDF file' (Fig 21).
A dialog called 'Elk - Export Drilling to PDF file' shows up (Fig 22).
Uncheck 'VIA'.
Click on 'Ok' button.
A dialog called 'Export drilling's logs to PDF file' shows up (Fig 23).
Click on 'Save' button.
Created file could be open with a pdf reader (Fig 24).
