Geotechnical  Software

Add points of interest to construction site (boreholes and tests)

Description of the geological layer of the borehole

Info about sample from borehole core

Define data using Stratigraphy templates

Linked to Google Maps and GPS

Attach photos, videos and audio recordings, voice to text

Available for FREE for Android and iOS

Data import in LAS, LAZ, E57 formats

Remove objects, reduce vegetation, and noise reduction

Define construction site boundaries and crop the point cloud

Change coordinates of point cloud

Display of colored images, altitude, and LIDAR intensity

Export points, construction site, and orthophoto to Stratigraphy, and resulting points in LAS and TXT format

Tests processing: Particle Size Distribution, Atterberg Limits, Proctor Compaction Test, California Bearing Ratio Test (CBR), Permeability Test, Oedometer Test, Shear Box Test, Unconfined Compression Test (for soil and rock), Triaxial Tests: Unconsolidated Undrained (UU), Consolidated Undrained (CU) Consolidated Drained (CD), Plate Load Test

Add formulas, protocols and tests, edit templates

Customizable report structure

Import field test formats: AGS, TXT, UNI, CPT, GEF… and more

Process results from site: boreholes, wells, and field tests (CPT, DPT, SPT, DMT, PMT)

Field tests into geological soil profiles: 2D and 3D subsoil geological models — horizontal or inclined layers, faults, erosion, lenses, landslides

Export cross sections and geological profiles, IFC and LandXML formats supported

Import geological maps connected to Google Maps

Geological data reporting: boreholes, wells, tests: SPT, CPT, DMT, DPT, PMT 

Database of pre-defined templates and creation of custom templates

Automatic creation of soils catalogues during input of boreholes

Many types of casing, annular fills and head types for wells

Export to PDF, DWG, DXF, MS Word, etc...

Protocol header customization 

Pattern and color shade catalog

Generation of straight and curved (polyline shape) geological cross-sections (including faults and lenses) with viewing of field tests and soil profiles

Drawings of structures, auxiliary lines and user's descriptions

Definition of the geotechnical soil types and groups

Input of different ground water levels

Display field test results or user-defined data for each layer

Export formats: PDF, DXF, DWG

Gradual Earthwork modelling

Input terrain using point cloud or by defining earthworks

Earthwork inputs: fill, excavate or both

Calculation of: earthwork or terrain movement volumes, earthworks against previous stages or original state, change of the water volume above the terrain, excavation volumes of individual soils considering bulking

Modelling of foundation pits, roads, railways, quarries, slopes​

Active, passive, and at-rest earth pressures, and in overconsolidated soils and in effective and total parameters

Surcharges loads: strip, trapezoidal, concentrated

Water modeling around structures, and artesian water

Geometry of terrain and earth wedge shape behind the structure (vertical, skew)

Absi, Sokolovski, M-B, C-K, SP 22.13330, Mazindrani, Coulomb

Earthquake: Mononobe-Okabe, Chinese standards, Arrango

Shape analysis of subsidence trough above excavations

Building damage due to settlement and rotation

Subsidence trough analysis: Peck, Limanov, and Fazekas theories or Volume Loss Method (with VL and k values)

Estimate subsidence trough shape, settlement, gradient and horizontal strains using Gauss or Aversin methods.

Simulate subsidence effects of sequential excavation and multiple tunnel tubes

Vertical settlement and Consolidation analysis under embankments, foundations, dams and surface loads​

Surcharges: strip, trapezoidal, concentrated load

Janbu, Buismann, Soft soil, compression index/coefficient, Ladd's secondary settlement

Affected zone: structural strength theory, geostatic stress, incompressible subsoil

Oedometer modulus from the loading curve; results for individual berms

​Slope stability analysis (polygonal/circular slip surface) for embankments, earth cuts, anchored retaining structures, MSE walls, etc.

Analyses methods: Bishop, Fellenius/Petterson, Spencer, Morgenstern-Price, Sarma, Janbu, Shahunyanc, ITFM

Material models: Mohr-Coulomb and Hoek-Brown

Verification analysis (limit states, factor of safety)

Rapid draw down analysis, tensile cracks

Pore pressures analyses: steady-state and transient groundwater seepage, pressure distribution, inflow/outflow, flow velocities and ground water table

Unsaturated zone models: log-linear, Van Genuchten, Gardner

Material parameters (Unified Soil Classification System)

Boundary conditions: impermeable/permeable line, prescribed pore pressure and inflow/outflow, seepage surface

Partially permeable interfaces (contacts) and beams

Analysis of foundation beams on elastic subsoil foundation using Winkler-Pasternak model

Subsoil parameters C1 and C2 are automatically calculated, leveraging the deformation properties of layered soils

Automatic generation of load combinations according to Eurocode EN 1990 (EC 0), including load types such as force, moment, strip, trapezoidal, and deformation loads

Built-in soils and rocks database

Design of foundation mats (rafts) and slabs supported on elastic subsoil or piles

Modeling of subsoil or pile foundations beneath the slab

Concentrated or distributed supports (fixed or spring)

Winkler-Pasternak model (subsoil parameters C1 and C2)

Calculation of required reinforcement to verify bending and shear capacity (dimensioning) of the slab

Slab deformation

Finite element meshing

Vertical and horizontal bearing capacity, footing settlement and rotation

Longitudinal and shear reinforcement (punching).

Shapes - centric, eccentric, strip footing, circular, stepped centric/eccentric/circular, spread footing with haunch

Modelling: sand-gravel bed, water, friction base-soil

Load eccentricity for bearing capacity and settlement

Spread footing in tension (standard, cone method, etc.)

Automatic design of dimensions of spread footing foundation based on field tests: CPT, SPT, PMT

Bearing capacity methods: Meyerhof, Schmertmann, Skempton, NF P94-261

Settlement analysis methods: Schmertmann, NAVFAC DM7, NF P94-261

Inclined shape of ground

Inclined footing bottom

Verification of load eccentricity

Built-in classification of soils (Robertson 1986 or 2010)

Verify cantilever retaining wall design (EN 1997-1, LRFD, limit states, factor of safety)

Analyze internal stability: overturning, slip, bearing capacity of foundation soil

Design and verify reinforced concrete cross-sections (EC 2, BS 8110, IS456, CSN, PN)

Front face resistance in front of the structure (at rest, passive, reduced passive)

Foundation below (strip footing, piles)

Berms in front of the structure

Design and analyze reinforced masonry block wall (EN 1997-1, LRFD, limit states, factor of safety)

Dimensioning (EN 1996-1-1, AS 3700)

Internal stability analysis (overturning, slip, bearing capacity of foundation soil)

Check concrete cross-sections (AS 3600, EC 2, BS 8110, IS456, CSN, PN)

Surcharges (strip, trapezoidal, concentrated load); inserted forces (anchors, safety fences)

Generation of panels with preliminary wall design

Overturning and slip verification

Analysis of 2D cross sections

Final wall with different types of blocks (any specific size)

Earthquake effects (Mononobe-Okabe, Arrango, Chinese standards)

Possibility to consider minimum dimensioning pressure

Analysis of earth pressures in effective and total parameters

Supports mesh overhangs with anchorage

Gabion wall design: analyze any structure shapes including geogrids anchoring

Verification analysis (EN 1997-1, LRFD, or classical approach: limit states, factor of safety)

Checking gabion material (rock)

Supports mesh overhangs with anchorage

Overturning and slip verification

Bearing capacity verification

Global stability verification

​Modelling of water in front of and behind structures, modelling of artesian water

Design of gravity retaining walls, with built-in database of soil parameters, layered soil

Verify concrete cross-sections, standards: EC 2, BS 8110, IS456, CSN, PN

Verify stone masonry structures (EC 6, GB 50030-2011)

Modelling of anchors

Analysis of earth pressures in effective and total parameters

Analysis of internal stability (overturning, slip, bearing capacity of foundation soil

Foundation: strip footing, piles

Verify Mechanically Stabilized Earth walls and segmental retaining walls reinforced by geogrids (georeinforcements)

Fortrac, Tensar, Miragrid, KB-grid, Acegrid, Secugrid, Enkagrid, Paralink, Paragrid

Verify: fictitious wall against slip and overturning; bearing capacity; internal stability for extensible/inextensible reinforcements; global stability at circular slip surface; etc., etc.

slopes: prefabricated blocks, simple slope, slope with berms

Design retaining walls using Redi-Rock wall system (USA)

Calculation of MSE walls with Redi-Rock Positive Connection (PC) blocks and Mirafi geogrids

Redi-Rock Inc. database of blocks and setbacks

Verify: wall against slip and overturning, slip on geogrid, tensile and pull-out resistance of georeinforcement, internal stability for extensible and inextensible reinforcements (AASHTO, FHWA NHI-10-024, Chinese standards, BS 8006...)

Design soil nail walls and slopes with shotcrete cover or steel mesh

Dimensioning and verification of concrete cover

Analysis of slopes protected by meshes

Internal stability analysis (overturning, slip, bearing capacity of foundation soil)

Analysis of earth pressures in effective and total parameters

Stability verification of stepped nailed walls along straight or polygonal slip surface

Analysis of stability of rock slopes and walls, including a planar (straight) or polygonal slip surface or rock wedge

Models: Mohr-Coulomb, Hoek-Brown and Barton-Bandis

Smooth, undulated or stepped plane slip surface

Overhangs of rock face for 3D wedge

Modelling of water in joints and tension cracks, forces due to water on (internal) slip surface

Rock wedge stereographic projection (Markland´s test plot)

Design bridge abutments including wing walls

Check the abutment for overturning, translation, bearing capacity of foundation soil and dimensioning of decisive or reinforced concrete sections (including wings)

Verify concrete cross-sections, standards: EC 2, BS 8110, IS456, CSN, PN

Verification of construction joints and wall keys

General shape of terrain behind the structure

Pile analysis: vertical bearing capacity (tension/compression), pile settlement, horizontal bearing capacity

Pile technology (bored, driven, CFA piles)

Cross-section: rectangle, I, cross, tube, steel or timber

Modulus of subsoil reaction along the pile length (Vesic, Matlock and Reese, CSN, constant or linear distribution)

Horizontal (Broms, p-y) and shear bearing capacity

Negative Skin Friction

Pile bearing capacity according to (static) cone penetration test (CPT): LCPC (Bustamante), NEN 6743, EN 1997-2, Schmertmann, and standard penetration tests (SPT): Décourt-Quaresma, Aoki-Velloso

Circular or rectangular pile cross-section (with the option of base enlargement)

Import formats: TXT, gINT, AGS, NEN standard

Load-Settlement Curve

Analysis of the pile group according to the CPTs

Designing pile walls for stabilizing slopes

Internal forces on pile, pile deformation and displacement

Dimensioning of reinforced concrete and steel cross-sections

Pressure reduction coefficient for soldier piles

Rock bearing capacity for piles fixed in the rock

Internal stability of anchors

Modulus of subsoil reaction (Schmitt, Ménard, Chadeisson, NF P 94, CUR 155)

Verification of steel tube or rod micropiles

Micropile bearing capacity, verify both the root and shaft

Buckling failure: equation of bending of a prismatic beam (geometric method), After Salas, After Souch

Verification of the micropile cross-section adjusted for projected lifetime

Micropile root verification methods: Bustamante (SPT, Pressiometer Ménard), Lizzi, Littlejohn, Zweck, Bowles, Véas

Analyze pile raft foundation with a rigid pile cap, analytical or spring (FEM) methods

Floating, rested or fixed piles

Vertical bearing capacity in cohesive soil (FHWA standards) and in cohesionless soil (NAVFAC DM 7.2, Effective stress, CSN 73 1002)

Reduction of vertical bearing capacity (UFC 3-220-01A, La Barré, Seiler-Keeney)

Poulos load-settlement curve

Pile reinforcement (BS, PN, IS, AS, ACI, GB, CSN, SNiP, etc.)

Analyze spatial earth pressures on circular shaft

Load calculation on flexible, semi-rigid and rigid shaft 

Spatial earth pressure (V.G. Berezantsev, Cheng&Hu)

Uniform load correction (DIN V 4034-1 or СНиП II-94-80)   

Surcharges around the shaft

Interaction between shaft lining and soil

Internal forces in walers by polygonal method (non-linear soil model), and reduction of uniform load on walers

Design non-anchored and anchored retaining walls with embedment lengths, internal forces and forces in anchors

Pile walls: Secant, Tangent and Contiguous walls

Soldier pile wall - steel (I, HEB)

Sheet pile walls: Vinyl (CMI, Everlast Synthetic Products); Steel (Skyline, Vítkovice Steel, Arcelor Mittal, Agastyl, Gerdau, ThyssenKrupp, Mer Lion Metals, Bethlehem Steel)

Concrete rectangular walls (Diaphragm walls, Milano walls)

Design embedded retaining walls including displacement of structure with elasto-plastic non-linear analysis (method)

Anchored, strutted and cantilevered walls

Anchors database: Pre-stressed bar anchors (VSL, ARCO, SAS, Dywidag), Strand anchors (VSL, Dywidag), Anchor bars (Minova, VSL), Helical anchors (MacLean, Chance), Deadman anchors

Anchor strength, pull-out resistance (soil or grouting)

Soil failure: heave and piping.

Finite Element Method modeling and analysis of terrain settlement, diaphragm walls, sheet pile, excavation analysis, slope stability, excavation analysis, displacements, internal forces in structural elements, stresses and strains, plastic zones in soil, pore pressure, etc.

Material models: Linear elastic, Modified elastic, Mohr-Coulomb, Modified Mohr-Coulomb with hardening/ softening, Drucker-Prager, Cam Clay, Hypoplastic model for clay

Perform time dependent settlement analysis under foundations, embankments and surface loads (surcharges).

Different permeability in the horizontal and vertical direction (anisotropic material)

Choose soil for consolidation process

Calculation of: soil deformation and settlement in time by external load; pore pressure and ground water table evolution

Constant/time-dependent load

Perform steady state or transient water flow analysis

Evolution and steady state of pore pressure distribution, degree of saturation in the unsaturated zone, seepage velocities and inflow/outflow through the model 

Material models: Log-linear, Gardner, Van Genuchten

Boundary conditions: Impermeable line, Permeable line, Prescribed pore pressure, Prescribed inflow/outflow, Seepage surface

Design tunnel lining, system of anchors and rock bolts and grouting-strengthen regions. 

Model linings: Beam elements (1D) or standard 2D elements

Use a relaxation factor to model 3D behavior during excavation

Hinged bearing ends of the beam elements

Temperature loads on the beams

Consider: lining shrinkage, soil swelling

Automatic generation of anchors fixed to the lining

Dynamic analysis of geotechnical structures loaded by ground motion

Displacements, stresses, internal forces, etc.

Modal analysis: eigenfrequencies and eigenmodes for setting material damping

Material damping: Damping ratio, Rayleigh damping coefficients

Accelerograms compatible with Eurocode 8 response

Boundary conditions