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Sheet Pile Wall - Cantilever Excavation Design Example
A Sheet Pile Wall Supporting a 10ft Cantilever Excavation In this example we will present the model creation and the full design of a...


Pile Group Analysis with Multiple Software
3x3 Pile Group Analysis - DeepFND Verification Pirrello and Poulos 2013 A group of 9 piles (3x3 at centre-to-centre spacing 2m in each...


3D Finite Element Analysis for Foundation Piles
DeepFND Software - 3D FEM Analysis Module Design Your Pile System with the Soil Springs and FE Methods! While the conventional P-Y method...


Pile Cap Shapes & Pile Configurations
Pile Cap Shapes & Pile Configurations in DeepFND and HelixPile Our foundation piles design programs DeepFND and HelixPile can design...


Pile Groups and Pile Raft Software - DeepFND
See what makes the difference! DeepFND and HelixPile Software Programs can design single foundation piles, concrete pile caps of any...


PY Analysis Verification - DeepFND & HelixPile Software
The following case studies include the verification of the P-Y lateral analysis capabilities of the DeepFND software. The verification is...


Pile Group Load Tests by Matlock et al. 1980
Field Tests of Lateral Load Behavior of Pile Groups in Soft Clay A. INTRODUCTION In 1980 at Harvey, Louisiana, a number of experiments...


Drilled Pile Load Tests in Atlanta, GA
Calibration & Evaluation of Different Methods with DeepFND In 1993 FHWA in association with ADSC and ASCE released a report No....


Pile Cap Reinforcement Checks in DeepFND
Pile Groups, Punching Checks, Reinforcement Checks and Optimization DeepFND - the most complete pile foundation software Say goodbye to...


DeepFND - Pile Load Tests
Pile Load Tests Compared with Settlement Prediction Methods by DeepFND Deep Foundation Software DeepFND has powerful features that enable...


Excavations with Tiebacks and Rock Anchors
Anchored Walls - Information and Construction Sequence Anchored walls have become popular in braced excavations because of a) the...


Critical Failure Surface - SnailPlus Example
70 deg Slope - Circular Slope Surface Method In this example we will design a soil nail wall (soil nails with shotctete facing),...


Automatic Failure Surface Method - SnailPlus Example
80deg Slope - Automatic Slope Search Method In this example we will design a soil nail wall (soil nails with a shoctrete facing)...


Optical Surveys in Geotechnical Monitoring
Optical Surveys for Geotechnical Engineering Projects Optical surveys in geotechnical monitoring are used to monitor ground, guide wall,...


Ideal Helical Pile Sections
Updated Ideal Helical Piles - Included in HelixPile Software IDEAL Foundation Systems informed us that they would like to update their...


HelixPile Software - Verification Examples
Helical Pile Design Examples: Hand Calculations & Software Verification In this section we present detaileded examples for calculating...


Design of Helical Piles
Helical Piles: Equation Methods vs Settlement Based Approach Helical pile design is governed by simple geotechnical engineering...


Helical Piles: Section Types and Helix Configurations
Helical Pile Sections and Helix Configurations in DeepFND and HelixPile Software The following article and video present the available...


Helical Piles - Lateral Pile Load Test Calibration
Lateral pile load test calibration for Helical pile software HelixPile This section includes a number of tests that were considered in...


Load - Settlement Response of Helical Piles
Helical piles in compression - Prediction of settlement response At the 2014 DFI Helical Piles and Tiebacks seminar in St. Charles, MO,...
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