Nivelties in the Mini-CAD module
Drilled and driven piles.

Drilled and driven piles.
Analysis and design of cantilever walls using global and partial safety factor concepts. Among other things, the program simplifies optimisation of spur width and reinforced concrete design.
  • System input using absolute heights
  • Berms on the active and passive sides
  • Bounded and double-bounded surcharges on active and passive sides
  • Analysis using active earth pressure, at-rest earth pressure or increased active earth pressure
  • Active earth pressure coefficients to DIN 4085 or user-defined values
  • Passive earth pressure coefficients to DIN 4085 (new), Streck, Caquot/Kerisel, DIN 4085 (old) or user-defined values
  • Choice of hydraulic gradient consideration on active and the passive sides
  • Analysis of overall system stability (sliding, overturning, bearing capacity)
  • Analysis of hydraulic heave safety and buoyancy safety
  • Examines bearing capacity 5° condition to DIN 4017
  • Settlement analysis to DIN 4019
  • Limiting depth analysis using p % of overburden stress, a multiple of footing width b' or a fixed value
  • Consideration of anchors and struts
  • Deep-seated stability analysis with optimisation of anchor lengths
  • Reinforced concrete design to DIN 1045
  • Crack width analysis to DIN 1045
  • Anchor steel design
  • Input of action and displacement boundary conditions and much more
  • Choice of earth pressure redistributions (among others to EAB 1988 or EAB 2006)
  • Choice of result visualisations, among others for earth pressure on equivalent wall, water pressure, moments, shear force, normal force, displacement, soil pressure, settlements
  • Consideration of pre-stresses and pre-deformations
  • Consideration of seismic loads
  • Interface to the GGU-STABILITY program (slope failure analyses)
  • User-designed output sheet
  • Copy screen sections, e.g. for transfer to a word processor Mini-CAD system for additional annotation of graphics

System requirements

GGU-Software runs on PCs with the following specifications:

  • Pentium III or higher processor
  • minimum 64MB memory
  • Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7
  • 100MB free hard disk space
  • DVD-ROM drive or internet connection (for installation)
  • VGA or higher resolution monitor
  • USB Interface (1.1 or higher) (for licence dongle)