GGU-RETAIN: Preface

GGU-RETAIN allows the analysis of sheet pile walls, soldier pile walls and in-situ concrete walls (bored pile walls, diaphragm walls and bored soldier pile walls) as well as FMI (cut, mix, inject) walls and combined sheet pile walls.

The application is essentially based on the Recommendations of the Working Group for Excavations (German: EAB) and the Recommendations of the Committee for Waterfront Structures (EAU 2012). Virtually all the cases considered by the Working Groups are included as examples. A special feature of the application is automatically finding the earth-pressure redistribution values suggested by the EAB. For analysis and design both the global safety factor concept to DIN 1054 (old) and the partial safety factor concept to EC 7 may be taken into consideration.