Technical Specifications
Axial Capacity of Driven Piles
- Adhesion types
- Adhesion for cohesive soils
- Piles driven through soft clay
- Piles driven through overlying
- Sands or sandy gravel
- Piles without different strata
- User-defined adhesion
- Calculated capacities
- Restrike, driving, ultimate
- Design considerations
- Long and short-term scour
- Soft compressible soils
- Negative skin friction
- Non-tapered pile types
- Pipe—open and closed end
- Concrete
- H-Pile
- Soil materials
- Cohesive / cohesionless
- Tapered pile types
- Timber
- Raymond uniform taper
- Monotube
Axially Loaded Piles
- Axial resistance analysis
- Max allowable axial displacement
- Ultimate axial resistance
- Pile top loading
- Axial
- Pile Types
- Cylindrical
- Rectangular
- Pipe
- Common sections
- Tapered or non-tapered
- Reinforced concrete
- Prestressed concrete
- Elastic or plastic
- Soil materials
- Elastic
- API sand
- API clay
- User-defined
- Drilled clay
- Drilled sand
- Coyle Reese Clay (driven)
- Mosher Sand
Laterally Loaded Piles
- Additional loading
- Loading by lateral soil movement
- Transition zone for sliding soil in lateral resistance function
- Lateral resistance function (multiple soil movement cases)
- Advanced computation options
- Stiffness matrix calculator
- Pushover analysis
- Pile length vs top deflection
- Group analysis
- Cap designer
- Radial, rectangular, custom patterns
- Pile toe loading
- Shear resistance
- Lateral resistance analysis
- Max allowable lateral displacement
- Ultimate lateral resistance
- Pile top loading
- Moment in X and Y
- Shear in X and Y
- Slope in X and Y
- Rotational stiffness in X and Y
- Deflection in X and Y
- Axial load
- Define any combination of loading
- LRFD combinations
- Pile types
- Cylindrical
- Rectangular
- Pipe
- Typical sections
- Elastic and plastic
- Reinforced concrete
- Prestressed concrete
- Pile with casing/core
- Tapered or non-tapered
- Soil materials
- Elastic
- Soft clay soil
- Submerged stiff clay
- Dry stiff clay
- Sand
- Weak rock
- User-defined
- API method for sand
- Loess
- Liquefied sand
- Piedmont residual soils
- Strong rock (vuggy limestone)
- Modified stiff clay without free water
- Silt (cemented C-Phi soil)
- Soft clay with user defined J
- Hybrid liquefied sand
- Massive rock
- Output
- Displacement X and Y
- Rotation X and Y
- Beam shear force X and Y
- Beam moment XY and YZ
- Soil reaction force X and Y
- Soil stiffness X and Y
- P-Y curves with depth
- Use any input parameters as random variables
Model Definition
- Boreholes to define stratigraphy
- Definition of multiple and pattern piles
Additional Features
- Full 3D FEM pile engine
- P-Y modification factors
- T-Z modification factors
- Q-Z modification factors
- Static and cyclic loading options
- Integration with Slide2
- Export to Slide2
- Export to Excel
- Info Viewer