
Material properties and material database 4.1 Modelling soil and interface behaviour 4.1.1 General tabsheet 4.1.2 Parameters tabsheet 4.1.3 Flow parameters tabsheet 4.1.4 Interfaces tabsheet 4.1.5 Initial tabsheet 4.2 Modelling undrained behaviour 4.2.1 Undrained (A) 4.2.2 Undrained (B) 4.2.3 Undrained (C) 4.3 Simulation of soil tests 4.3.1 Triaxial test 4.3.2 Oedometer 4.3.3 CRS 4.3.4 DSS 4.3.5 General 4.3.6 Results 4.3.7 Parameter optimisation 4.4 Material data sets for plates 4.4.1 Material set 4.4.2 Properties 4.5 Material data sets for geogrids 4.5.1 Material set 4.5.2 Properties 4.6 Material data sets for embedded pile rows 4.6.1 Material set 4.6.2 Properties 4.6.3 Interaction properties (pile bearing capacity) 4.6.4 Interface stiffness factor 4.7 Material data sets for anchors 4.7.1 Material set 4.7.2 Properties 4.8 Assigning data sets to geometry componentsĦ5 67 67 73 90 96 102 104 105 105 106 106 109 110 111 112 113 113 114 121 121 122 125 126 126 127 128 129 130 131 133 133 134 136Ĭalculations 5.1 Layout of the Calculations program Input program - General overview 3.1 Starting the Input program 3.1.1 New project 3.1.2 Existing project 3.1.3 Importing a geometry 3.1.4 Packing a project 3.2 Layout of the Input program 3.3 Menus in the Menu bar 3.3.1 File menu 3.3.2 Edit menu 3.3.3 View menu 3.3.4 Geometry menu 3.3.5 Loads menu 3.3.6 Materials menu 3.3.7 Mesh menu 3.3.8 Help menu 3.4 Geometry 3.4.1 Points and lines 3.4.2 Plates 3.4.3 Embedded pile row 3.4.4 Geogrids 3.4.5 Interfaces 3.4.6 Node-to-node anchors 3.4.7 Fixed-end anchors 3.4.8 Tunnels 3.4.9 Hinges and rotation springs 3.4.10 Drains 3.4.11 Wells 3.5 Loads and boundary conditions 3.5.1 Standard fixities 3.5.2 Standard earthquake boundaries 3.5.3 Standard absorbent boundaries (dynamics) 3.5.4 Set dynamic load system 3.5.5 Fixities 3.5.6 Rotation fixities (plates) 3.5.7 Absorbent boundaries 3.5.8 Prescribed displacements 3.5.9 Distributed loads 3.5.10 Point loads 3.5.11 Bending momentsġ5 15 16 20 20 21 23 25 25 26 26 26 27 28 28 28 29 29 30 32 36 37 40 40 41 46 47 48 48 48 49 49 49 49 50 50 50 52 53 54ĭesign approaches 3.6.1 Definition of design approaches 3.6.2 Definition of partial factors for loads 3.6.3 Definition of partial factors for materials Mesh generation 3.7.1 Basic element type 3.7.2 Global coarseness 3.7.3 Global refinement 3.7.4 Local coarseness 3.7.5 Local refinement 3.7.6 Automatic refinement General information 2.1 Units and sign conventions 2.2 File handling 2.3 Help facilities
