Earth Pressures
This program computes basic earth pressures (active pressure, passive pressure and pressure at rest) acting upon an arbitrary shaped structure.
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Output report(PDF)
Features
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Generally layered soil environment
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Built-in database of soil parameters
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Arbitrary number of surcharges applied to structures (strip, trapezoidal, concentrated load)
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Modelling of water in front of and behind structures, modelling of artesian water
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General shape of terrain behind the structure
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Various earth pressure theories (Absi, Sokolovski, Müller-Breslau, Mazindrani, Caquot-Kérisel, Coulomb, SP 22.13330)
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Shape of earth wedge (vertical, skew)
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EN 1997 – option to choose partial factors based on National Annexes
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EN 1997 – option to choose all design approaches, consider design situations
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Analysis of earth pressures in effective and total parameters
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Analysis of earth pressures of overconsolidated soils
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Earthquake effects (Mononobe-Okabe, Arrango, Chinese standards)