This program is used to analyze a pile group (pile raft foundation with a rigid pile cap) using both spring method (FEM), or analytical solutions. Both floating piles and piles fixed into subsoil can be considered. The main features of GEO5 Pile Group program are:
Analytical solutions
- Analysis of vertical bearing capacity of a pile group of in cohesive soil as a rigid earth block according
to FHWA standards - Analysis of vertical bearing capacity of a group of piles in cohesionless soil (NAVFAC DM 7.2, Effective stress, CSN 73 1002)
- Reduction of vertical bearing capacity of a pile group (UFC 3-220-01A, La Barré, Seiler-Keeney)
- Settlement analysis of a pile group in a cohesive soil as a settlement of substitute foundation
- Settlement analysis of a pile group in cohesionless soil according to Poulos (load-settlement curve)
Spring method (FEM) – Analysis of a three-dimensional action of a group of piles
- Analysis of rotation, deformation, and displacement of a rigid pile cap
- An arbitrary number of load cases and their combinations
- Hinged or fixed connection between piles in a group and a rigid pile cap
- Floating rested or fixed piles into the foundation subsoil
- Analysis of group of micropiles
- Possibility to introduce inclined piles and general shape of a rigid pile cap
- An automatic post-calculation of springs along the pile length piles from soil properties
- Possibility to introduce both horizontal and vertical springs along the pile length
- Distribution of displacements and internal forces along for each pile in a group
- Dimensioning of a pile reinforcement according to EN 1992-1 (EC 2), BS, PN, IS, AS, ACI, GB, CSN, SNiP
