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DeepFND - Pile Load Tests
Pile Load Tests Compared with Settlement Prediction Methods by DeepFND Deep Foundation Software DeepFND has powerful features that enable...


Excavations with Tiebacks and Rock Anchors
Anchored Walls - Information and Construction Sequence Anchored walls have become popular in braced excavations because of a) the...


Critical Failure Surface - SnailPlus Example
70 deg Slope - Circular Slope Surface Method In this example we will design a soil nail wall (soil nails with shotctete facing),...


Automatic Failure Surface Method - SnailPlus Example
80deg Slope - Automatic Slope Search Method In this example we will design a soil nail wall (soil nails with a shoctrete facing)...


Optical Surveys in Geotechnical Monitoring
Optical Surveys for Geotechnical Engineering Projects Optical surveys in geotechnical monitoring are used to monitor ground, guide wall,...


Ideal Helical Pile Sections
Updated Ideal Helical Piles - Included in HelixPile Software IDEAL Foundation Systems informed us that they would like to update their...


HelixPile Software - Verification Examples
Helical Pile Design Examples: Hand Calculations & Software Verification In this section we present detaileded examples for calculating...


Design of Helical Piles
Helical Piles: Equation Methods vs Settlement Based Approach Helical pile design is governed by simple geotechnical engineering...


Helical Piles: Section Types and Helix Configurations
Helical Pile Sections and Helix Configurations in DeepFND and HelixPile Software The following article and video present the available...


Helical Piles - Lateral Pile Load Test Calibration
Lateral pile load test calibration for Helical pile software HelixPile This section includes a number of tests that were considered in...


Load - Settlement Response of Helical Piles
Helical piles in compression - Prediction of settlement response At the 2014 DFI Helical Piles and Tiebacks seminar in St. Charles, MO,...


Lateral pile analysis of helical piles with HelixPile
Lateral pile analysis options in HelixPile The response of helical piles needs to be evaluated for lateral as well as vertical loading....


Stepped Soil Nail Wall - SnailPlus Example
Stepped Soil Nail Walls Design Example In this example we will design three stepped soil nail walls. The model is created and analyzed...


Slope Stability Analysis
Slope Stability Analysis Methods & Failure Surface Options Our shoring design software - DeepEX, as well as, our Soil Nail Walls design...


SnailPlus Software Training Materials
Slope Stability Analysis & Design of Soil Nail Walls Training Materials - Use of the Software SnailPlus is a robust software program,...


Soil Nail Walls Factors of Safety
Soil Nail Walls - Safety Factors Maybe not as safe as you think! Soil nail wall analysis are typically performed with established...


Design of Soil Nail Walls - Information
Design of Soil Nail Walls: Construction, Advantages and Disadvantages Soil nail walls consists of installing passive reinforcement (i.e.,...


Inclinometer Monitoring Example
Subway Metro Station Excavation - Results Monitored with SiteMaster! SiteMaster is used to analyze inclinometer data from 33m excavation...


RST-Instruments - SiteMaster
RST Instruments is a Canadian based manufacturer of inclinometer probes and other monitoring equipment. SiteMaster can process both...


SiteMaster & Digitilt Inclinometers
SiteMaster supports Digitilt data from SlopeIndicator inclinometers SiteMaster supports inclinometer data from SlopeIndicator Digitilt...
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