HelixPile has implemented many international design codes and standards for the design and analysis (structural and geotechnical) of the helical piles.

In HelixPile we can perform a service or factored design with the use of US and European standards. We can easily select and change between several US, European, Australian and Chinese structural codes.

• ACI 318-11 (Reinforced Concrere Members)

• ASD 1989 (Allowable Stress Design - Steel Members)

• AASHTO LRFD 13th Edition (Steel Members)

• AISC 360 and 360-Allowable (2010 and 2016)

• EUROCODE 2, 7 and 8 Specifications

• AASHTO LRFD Load Combinations

• European Codes (DIN, BS, XP94, DM, DA)

• Australian Standards (AS 3600, AS/NZS 4100)

• Chinese Standards (CN)

HelixPile can perform both vertical and lateral pile analysis.

HelixPile uses both the individual plate and the cylinder methods, reporting the most critical results. The general and the Helicap equations can be selected. For the vertical pile design, we can select to use either the Vesic, or the Meyerhoff-Hansen method. HelixPile calculates and checks the helical pile installation torque.

For the lateral pile analysis, HelixPile can use either the defined load on the pile head and calculate the developed moment, shear and pile displacement diagrams, or it can perform a pushover analysis, calculating and presenting the required lateral load to achieve a specified pile head displacement.

HelixPile can perform settlement analysis. In the software we can select one of the implemented pile acceptance criteria, or define our own.

HelixPile can do full vertical and lateral design of helical piles.

The helical piles in HelixPile can be of any typical shape (pipes, square solid and square hollow sections). In each pile we can define and assign and unlimited number of helix configurations. The piles can be grouted. Finally, we can use external casing on the pile head, increasing the pile lateral capacity.

• Steel pipes

• Square sodid steel sections

• Square hollow steel sections

• Unlimited helix configurations per pile

• Grouted piles

• Use of external steel casing

HelixPile can design both Single Helical Piles, and Pile Groups with multiple piles (the additional optional module Pile Groups is required).

The software can also design Pile Rafts, considering the combined effect of the soil below the raft (additional module to our Pile Group option).

• Single Helical Piles

• Rectangular Pile Caps

• Triangular Pile Caps

• Circular Pile Caps

• Hexagonal Pile Caps

• Octagonal Pile Caps

• User-Defined Perimeter Pile Caps

• Pile Rafts