Option 6 Editor: Acceleration at top of Sublayers

Some of the following information is taken literally from the SHAKE91 and SHAKE User's Manuals (Idriss and
Sun, 1992; Schnabel et al., 1972), and other class and technical seminar notes. This information is italicized.
Further information on this option can be found in Section 4.2 of the Introduction.

Acceleration at Top of Sublayers - Set Identification: A description of this Option 6 data set can be entered in this
text box. As with the other options, the first word should always be Option followed by a space and then the option
number, in this case 6 (i.e., Option 6). This is the code that SHAKE2000 will use to identify this data set as option
6 for subsequent operations, such as creating an input file. This is also Line No. 1 for this option. SHAKE2000 will
automatically input a 6 as Line No. 2 in the *.EDT and input files.

Sublayer for which acceleration time histories are computed: Array to indicate the numbers of the sublayers at
the top of which the acceleration is to be calculated. To delete a layer on this option, place the cursor on the layer's
cell, use the Delete key to delete the value, and then press the Tab key to move the cursor to the following cell. The
data on the following cells, if any, will automatically scroll to occupy the cell where data was deleted. Please note
that if you delete a layer, then the layers may not display correctly when plotting the profile on a graph.
When entering data on the first blank cell for this option, default values of 1 for type of sublayer and 0 for mode of
output will be automatically placed on the corresponding cells.

Type of each sublayer: 0 (zero) for outcropping, 1 (one) for within soil profile, or 2 (two) for incident wave:
The value on the first blank cell cannot be deleted on this option, only modified. A code of 2 (two) for incident is
also acceptable for layers 2 through the halfspace. With this code, the incident wave will be computed for the layer.
Refer to Section 2 of this manual for more detailed information about the incident and reflected waves. An example
and recommendations for the application of the incident wave is provided by Mejia and Dawson (2006).

Mode of Output for computed accelerations: 0 if only max. accelerations or 1 for max. acceleration and time
history: Array to specify the mode of output for the computed accelerations: 0 (zero, see section 2.2 for
explanation) if only maximum accelerations is desired or 1 (one) if both the maximum acceleration and the time
history of acceleration are to be calculated and saved. This value cannot be deleted, only set to either 1 or 0.
Further, data on the first blank cell cannot be entered on this option, only modified. When using the incident wave
option above, the first line of the time history file will be a header line; the second line will have the number of
values and the time step separated by a coma; and, the acceleration values will be saved as one value per row
beginning in line 3.

If you want to enter the data for more than one sublayer at a time, place the cursor on the sublayer that you want to
copy and then click on the Repeat command button. This will display the Option 6 Sublayers form. Use this new
form to enter the number of times the sublayer will be repeated and the data that will be used for the new layers.

The HEA Option 7 option allows you to create sets of Option 7 for the same layers for which acceleration time
histories will be created; i.e., those layers for which a value of 1 has been entered in the bottom row of the form.
The sets of Option 7 will be created upon returning to the SHAKE analysis form.
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