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GEOSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS SETTLEMENT
GeoStructural Analysis Settlement enables you to calculate settlement caused by surcharge load or by a change of the ground water table. You can easily visualize components such as subsurface stratigraphy, resulting settlement, and vertical stress loading.
Key Features
- Define soil layers with different properties using either project-specific data or the built-in soil parameters database of common soil types (USCS)
- Import soil parameters from gINT
- Apply an unlimited number of surcharge loads of varying configurations, including trapezoidal, strip, and concentrated load distributions
Analysis and Design Capabilities
- Perform settlement analyses using standard industry theories (Janbu, Buisman)
- Perform soft soil analyses utilizing indices or coefficients of compression
- Perform secondary settlement based on Lade's theory
- Predict settlements induced by earthworks such as embankments, levees, road and railroad subgrade construction
- Analyze performance throughout staged construction
- Display final values of specific variables or their variation by construction stage
- Reduce properties of affected zones according to structural strength, by geostatic stress percentage, or by incompressible subsoil
- Perform settlement analyses based on laboratory data obtained from incremental load and/or constant rate of strain oedometer soil tests
- Analyze settlement and stresses automatically at all important points and by loading increment
- Visualize and display results using color gradients
