Version GEO5 -Pile Raft Foundation Software

Analytical solutions

• Analysis of vertical bearing capacity of a pile group of in cohesive soil as a rigid earth block according to FHWA standards
• Analysis of vertical bearing capacity of a group of piles in cohesionless soil (NAVFAC DM 7.2, Effective stress, CSN 73 1002)
• Reduction of vertical bearing capacity of a pile group (UFC 3-220-01A, La Barré, Seiler-Keeney)
• Settlement analysis of a pile group in a cohesive soil as a settlement of substitute foundation
• Settlement analysis of a pile group in cohesionless soil according to Poulos (load-settlement curve)

Spring method (FEM) – Analysis of a three-dimensional action of a group of piles

• Analysis of rotation, deformation and displacement of a rigid pile cap
• An arbitrary number of load cases and their combinations
• Hinged or fixed connection between piles in a group and a rigid pile cap
• Floating, rested or fixed piles into the foundation subsoil
• Analysis of group of micropiles
• Possibility to introduce inclined piles and general shape of a rigid pile cap
• An automatic post-calculation of springs along the pile length piles from soil properties
• Possibility to introduce both horizontal and vertical springs along the pile length
• Distribution of displacements and internal forces along for each pile in a group
• Dimensioning of a pile reinforcement according to EN 1992-1 (EC 2), BS, PN, IS, AS, ACI, GB, CSN, SNiP