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GEO5 Spread Footing
GEO5 Spread Footing helps you to optimize spread footing designs that are subject to vertical, horizontal and moment loading. This program lets you design based on a range of criteria, including bearing capacity as well as settlement and rotation. It also determines the longitudinal and shear reinforcement required within the footing for structural stability.
Key Features
- Select from a variety of spread footings, including circular, rectangular, strip footing, stepped, centric, eccentric, etc.
- 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 to spread footings of varying configurations, including trapezoidal, strip, and concentrated load distributions
- Model water conditions beneath the spread footing, including artesian water conditions
- Model spread footing supported on replaced and compacted sand/gravel fill
- Specify surface terrain and subsurface stratigraphy
- Accommodates inclined footing base and sloping ground surface
Analysis and Design Capabilities
- Evaluate spread footing bearing capacity against a variety of accepted methods such as Brinch-Hansen
- Predict settlement analyses and footing rotation based on methods such as Janbu, Buisman, and Soft Soil
- Estimate secondary settlement according to Lade
- Analyze foundations supported on soil under drained or undrained conditions or on rock
- Accommodate influence of combined bending and tension/compression on the shape of the stress diagram under the footing
- Determine the longitudinal and shear reinforcement required within the footing for structural stability
