Soil, Land & Waste Management

SVSOILS™ is the world’s premier product for estimating the hydraulic properties for flow modeling in unsaturated soils. Our database contains data on over 6,200 soil-water characteristic curves and provides numerous theoretical methods of estimating the soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) or unsaturated hydraulic conductivity curve.

This completely new release represents a fresh re-design of the classic and popular SoilVision® application. SVSOILS™ contains an expanded database of unsaturated soil properties and presents a new and simplified interface for a greatly improved and pleasing user experience.

The software is designed specifically for the estimation and mathematical representation of soil constitutive models for subsequent numerical modeling.

Saturated and unsaturated soil properties may be estimated based on the extensive existing database or estimated with one of the many estimation methods present in the software. The database continues to grow as more organizations donate soils to the system. The estimation methods include: 9 methods of estimating the soil-water characteristic curve; 15 methods of estimating saturated hydraulic conductivity; and 10 methods of estimating unsaturated hydraulic conductivity.



Includes Data for More Than 6,200 Soil Samples
9 Methods for SWCC Estimation...Including Fredlund & Wilson for Sands, Silts and Clays
Estimate Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity by 10 Methods
Estimate Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity by 15 Methods

Key features and enhancements of SVSOILS™:

  • Premier and unique product for the estimation of unsaturated soils behaviour in seepage modeling

  • Redesigned simple user interface: Increased workflow efficiency with powerful data mining/searching capabilities

  • Estimate unsaturated hydraulic and thermal soil properties

  • Estimate SWCC by 9 methods

  • Utilizes (Fredlund & Wilson) the most reliable method available of estimating the SWCC for sands, silts, and clays

  • Estimate saturated hydraulic conductivity by 15 methods

  • Estimate unsaturated hydraulic conductivity by 10 methods

  • Calculate volume-mass properties of an air-water-soil mixture using any 3 measured properties

  • Calculate independent volume-mass properties of an oil-sand material including bitumen

  • Import unsaturated constitutive model into SVFLUX™ for unsaturated seepage modeling

  • Fit and estimate properties for consolidation modeling

  • Estimate oil-sand tailings constitutive properties

  • Automatic soil classification

  • Improved charting: High quality exportable charts

  • Tightly integrated with the new SVOFFICE™5 Manager

  • Extensive QAQC program

  • World Class Support: Highly dedicated team with tracking and fast response to raised issues - typically within 24 - 48 hours

  •   Comprehensive / Comparative List of Features

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    The new design is more tightly integrated with the SVOFFICE™5 suite of software and developed constitutive models may easily be integrated with the corresponding numerical analysis software package.

    A new feature of SVSOILS™ is the ability to develop a consitutive model for oil-sand tailings as a saturated or unsaturated material.

    SoilVision Systems Ltd. has spent years collecting high-quality unsaturated soil data from sources all over the world. Our database now contains data on over 6,200 soil samples. 98% of these soil samples have a soil-water characteristic curve measured in a laboratory. The soil database also contains saturated permeability (hydraulic conductivity) data on over 2,500 soils as well as unsaturated permeability data on over 700 soils.

    It is crucial to have an accurate description of unsaturated soil properties when performing finite element modeling of water and contaminant flow through the unsaturated soil zone. Methods for estimating unsaturated soil properties may not always be reliable. The use of the database contained in the SVSOILS™ software can confirm the potential variability of your unsaturated soil properties. Groups of soils may be selected and plotted together to give a comprehensive idea of the variability of the soil-water characteristic curve. Determination of the air entry value (AEV) or the residual water content with increased accuracy is now possible.

    Applications:

    General Applications:

  • Estimation of field capacity and capillary rise based on grainsize information
  • Estimation of soil-water characteristic curves
  • Estimation of saturated hydraulic conductivity curves
  • Estimation of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity curves
  • Seepage Applications:

  • Estimation of unsaturated hydraulic soil properties for seepage finite element modeling
  • Easily push data to SVFLUX™ to perform your seepage analysis
  • SVOFFICE™5 User Manual

      SVOFFICE5 Manual


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