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GGU-AXPILE: Analyse with constant pile length (Example 1)
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GGU-AXPILE: Analyse with constant pile length (Example 1)

Owned by Katrin Krause
Okt. 18, 2024
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The program offers two types of variation of the pile system:

  • Constant pile length: The pile diameter is varied.

  • Constant pile diameter: The pile length is varied.

You can select the required variation in the dialog boxes for the menu items "File/New" or "Edit/Analysis options". In a new system, or if you have changed the type of variation, the dialog box for the appropriate menu items will subsequently be automatically displayed.

In this example, the pile diameter will not be varied with constant diameter, as in the default settings, but with a constant pile length. Select the menu item "Edit/Piles (diameters)".

First enter the "Pile length". Below this, the pile shaft diameter variation range is given. If the pile does have a belled toe, activate the "With belled pile" check box, and enter the range of variation for the pile toe diameter.

When the "Define manually" button is pressed a dialog box opens which allows a fixed diameter to be specified for a user-defined number of piles.

After editing one of the previous dialog boxes, the system is first represented without the analysis results. If you want to have the foundation reanalysed with the new values, go to the "System" menu and select "Analyse". Alternatively, press the [F5] function key or click on the calculator in the tool bar.

The analysis results are then presented to you in the various graphic elements on the screen.

The graphics above consist of a total of seven elements (also see "Output preferences" menu):

  • Legend with soil properties (1),

  • Graphical representation of the system (2) (soil structure, pile or piles, among others),

  • Output table (3) with analysis results,

  • Resistance-settlement diagram (4) with the resistance-settlement curve for a selected pile length or pile diameter.

  • Legend with analysis fundamentals (5) such as pile type, pile length, safety factor, groundwater level, etc.,

  • Pile diagram (6) with analysis results for allowable pile loading and settlements,

  • Legend displaying the pile cross-section (7).

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