Updates & Changes

• Bugfix - Missing example files after changeover to new installation process.

• Bugfix - Problems when saving with file extensions if file extensions are hidden in Explorer.

• Buckling lines for hot-finished sections added.
• Subgrade reaction modulus via constrained modulus and pile width
  Previously, the beam width was always used for steel girders.
  Now, any existing drill hole diameter can also be used.
• PDFs replaced by online manuals (access via F1 and menu).
• Link to the Change Logs website has been added to the 'What's new' menu item.

• GGU-CONNECT ready
• Subgrade reaction modulus via constrained modulus and pile width implemented
• Subgrade modulus profile in accordance with DB Guideline 804.5501
• p-y method now also with buckling analysis

Info: Paid major update (free of charge for licensees with subscription or update insurance under the software service agreement)

• Product management

• Reinforced concrete design: Number of points with "No reinforcement found" are displayed.

• Type curve for non-cohesive soils after Piling Recommendations 2020 annual report.

• Reinforced concrete: BSt 550 added according to ÖNORM.

• Design situation 'DS-E' according to current standard now 'DS-A/DS-E'
• Design situation 'DS-E(old)' added.

• Bugfix: p-y method: Analysis of vertical capacity with user-defined skin friction values

• Product management

• Partial safety factors gam,phi according to DIN EN 1998-5 introduced. This concerns the calculation of the earth pressure coefficients according to Mononobe and Okabe.

• Product management

• Product management

• Mouse wheel operation now according to Windows conventions
• Product management

• Requirement for minimum pile length removed. Is not included in the current EA piles.

• Bugfix: Skin friction area for square piles

• Bugfix: Output table with crack width

• Bugfix: Output table with crack width

• Bugfix: Dialog box visualisation for mobilised passive earth pressure

• Bugfix: p-y method and friction angle input

• Bugfix: p-y method

• Product management

• Product management

• Bugfix: Earth support analysis for cohesive stiff soils

• Earth support analysis improved.

• Bugfix: Seismic effects to EAU 1990 (caused by DIN 4085)
  ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Old results are more conservative.

• Bugfix: Passive earth pressure after Culmann and passive berms with surcharge.

• p-y method implemented.

Info: Paid major update (free of charge for licensees with subscription or update insurance under the software service agreement)

• Bugfix: Vertical capacity: Activated check box 'Calculate qbk by averaging qc or cuk' and 'Own empirical data'.

• Export to GGU-STABILITY improved.

• Possible inaccuracy for passive earth pressure after Culmann corrected.

• Graphic output table: saving and loading of all settings

• Yield stress fy,k (steel pile) can be freely defined.

• Loads with limited plan dimensions revised and supplemented by the DIN 4085 approach.

• Product management

• Bugfix: Buckling analysis of tubes to EN 1993-1-6 Equation D.15 (minor influence)

• Graphical visualisation of action boundaries improved.
• Product management

• Import of files from GGU-DOLPHIN Version 1.15

• The designation for absolute heights can be freely defined.

• Product management

• Vertical capacity: The end resistance qb,k can now also be averaged directly using the corresponding table values without averaging qc or cu,k. This is advantageous if there are cohesionless and cohesive soils in the pile base zone of influence.

• Water pressure on pile base will be taken into account.

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• Product management

• Product management

• Product management

• Buckling analysis to DIN EN 1993-1-6 for pipes implemented.
• Different sections:
  Section bases can be moved with mouse.
  Menu item "Evaluation/Move section bases"

• Crack width analysis is no longer output twice.

• Earth pressure and state variable hatching spacing can be defined.
• 8.04: Product management

• Screen visualisation accelerated.

• Product management
• 8.01: Load case situation can be shown.

• Final version of M EBGS-Lsw 2018 Fact Sheet included.
• PDF import implemented.
• Mini-CAD: Layer designations can be defined.
• Expandable database with soil properties for common soils.

Info: Paid major update (free of charge for licensees with subscription or update insurance under the software service agreement)

• Colour selection on passive side for different soils on the passive and active side optimised.

• Analysis of vertical capacity of steel girders now with baseplate.
• Background colour for legends implemented
• Bending reinforcement EC 2: Now also with Nk.

• product management

• product management

• Renaming of passive earth pressure 'DIN 4085:1987' to 'DIN 4085:2011 planar slip surfaces'.
• Crack width analysis: Diameter of rebars > 28 mm.

• Renaming of passive earth pressure 'DIN 4085:1987' to 'DIN 4085:2011 planar slip surfaces'. Now also as default specification.

• Bugfix Corrosion: Possible error for flange thickness eradicated.

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• Bugfix: Earth pressure on continuous wall: Multiplication of active earth pressure now with pile spacing only.

• 'Simulate corrosion' and 'Weld plates' considerably improved.

• Culmann: "Eph increasing non-monotone" revised

• Bugfix: Corrosion of II and ][ sections.

• Bugfix: Differentiate Culmann and active and passive soil properties
• Bugfix: Export to GGU-STABILITY and point loads

• product management

• Unreinforced bored pile with analysis to EC 2 and DIN 4093:2012-08

• product management

• Spatial passive earth pressure after Culmann implemented
• Bugfix: Passive earth pressure after Culmann/Vogt
• Bugfix: Bored pile shear design for small moment.

• Bugfix Culmann: Active earth pressure and passive earth pressure and berms and several layers in the berm area.

• Culmann/Vogt: Now also with angle of inclination of passive earth pressure wedge up to -45°. Important in downward sloping passive berms

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• Spatial passive earth pressure after Culmann/Vogt implemented

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• Bugfix: Bored pile shear design for small moment.

• Bugfix: Bored pile shear design for small moment.

• Bugfix: Bored pile shear design

• 'Differentiate active + passive soil properties'.Variable soil colouring on active and passive side is now possible.

• Analysis of vertical capacity for tubular sections now for all diameter after Piling Recommendations (EA-Pfähle).

• Bugfix: Bounded surcharges (active side) with negative surcharge load

• EC 2 concrete design: Shear stress: VRd,c is calculated and output.
• Heave FOS: Designations adapted to EC 7.
• Active berms and at-rest pressure: Berm gradient too steep warning

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• Bugfix: Shear reinforcement for small moment and small normal force.

• Steel grade 420 added.

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• Bugfix: Analysis of vertical capacity: Skin surface area (lateral)

• Bugfix: Analysis of mobilised passive earth pressure using user-defined values

• Bugfix: Active berms and at-rest earth pressure
• Bugfix: Export to GGU-Stability: Forces and moments at the pile head

• Bugfix: Output table: passive earth pressure values, if calibration factor <> 1.0

• Stability analysis criterion to EC 3 using either N,Ed/Ncr <= 0.04 or N,Ed/Ncr <= 0.10

• Pile inclination can be taken into account.
• Stability analysis to EC 3
• Improved shear force analysis to EC 2 for minimum bending reinforcement

• Active earth pressure can be superimposed.

• Active earth pressure on continuous wall
• 3 additional redistribution figures for area loads

• Bugfix: EC 2 reinforced concrete design with large normal forces.

• Bugfix: Three-dimensional passive earth pressure after Weißenbach

• Reinforced concrete design to EC2 completely revised.
• Query for minimum longitudinal reinforcement can be turned off.

• Bugfix: Analysis of vertical capacity: Determine V,d

• Bugfix: Analysis of vertical capacity: Determine V,d
• Reinforced concrete design to EC2 can now be performed for all depths.

• Bugfix: Reinforced concrete design to EC2
• Comparison of three-dimensional and planar passive ep for closely spaced piles

• Bugfix: Reinforced concrete design to EC2

• Bugfix: New standard: Consideration of active earth pressure

Partial factors to ÖNORM EN 1997-1 implemented.
• Undo function implemented.

• Bugfix: 2nd order theory and DIN EN 1993-1-1: analysis now with gamma,M1.

• Bugfix: Vertical component of active earth pressure is taken into consideration when determining normal force.

• Bugfix: Analysis of vertical capacity: end resistance and skin friction are no longer reduced using gamma(Ep), but now use gamma(qb,k) or gamma(qs,k) instead.

• S420 steel grade added.
• Skin friction for analysis of mobilised passive earth pressure now also to EAU.

• Reinforcement distribution reinforced concrete can be given in output table.
• Reinforced concrete analysis now with design situations max M, max Q and max N.

• Bugfix: Analysis of Bh,d and Eph,d: Eph,d is now multiplied by the pile width.
• Analysis of Bh,d and Eph,d now down to pile toe

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• Bugfix: Analysis of vertical capacity: Determination of Eav,d
• Bugfix: EC 3 for steel sections: Simplified buckling analysis now with moment loading.
• Analysis of vertical capacity: The effective circumference can be defined independently of the mobilised passive earth pressure.

• Bugfix: Shear reinforcement to EC 2/DIN 1045-1
• Bugfix: Analysis of vertical capacity using user-defined values for sections that cannot be analysed compliant with Piling Recommendations (EA-Pfähle).

• Bugfix: Error message concerning cuk and qc in 'Soils' dialog

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• Steel pile and design to EC 3 now also work with user-defined section data.

• Analysis of vertical capacity now also possible with user-defined values.

• Bugfix: EC 3: numerical imprecision during analysis eradicated from fyk,red for Class 4 ==> Class 3 for soldier piles.

• Bugfix: EC 3: numerical imprecision in analysis eradicated from fyk,red for Class 4 ==> Class 3 for soldier piles.
• Bugfix: three-dimensional passive earth pressure according DIN 4085:2011

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• Passive side can be displayed on the right.

• Bugfix: Vertical capacity analysis. Vertical forces are now correctly taken into consideration.

• Bugfix: Vertical capacity analysis. Skin friction is now divided by gamma(Ep).

• Design to EC 3: no buckling analysis to EC 3 if analysis uses 2nd order theory

• Bugfix: Graphics output "max ks" now correct

• Bugfix: Earth pressure calculation with active berms and high groundwater table and downward sloping berms.

• Program updated

• Bugfix: Seismic effects to EC 8, if kv <> 0.0

• Seismic effects implemented to EC 8.

• Corrosion of sheet pile sections can now be simulated.

• Bugfix: EC 3, determination of max µ, if shear crimping analysis must be performed.

• Program updated to EC 3

• Steel design to EC 3 implemented.

• Partial safety factors to Eurocode 7

• Passive berms are analysed using the algorithm published in the 1977 Piling Handbook. If passive earth pressure coefficients were not selected to DIN 4085(new),analysis of the berm influence previously always adopted the coefficients from DIN 4085(new). This did not always lead to sensible results. The berm influence is now always analysed using the currently selected coefficients.

• Start depth for calculating passive earth pressure implemented.

• Bugfix: Analysis of Sum V and pile width/pile height or pile diameter input with user-defined profiles.
• New:
• Export of moment boundary conditions to GGU-STABILITY (V. 10.00)

• Bugfix: Concrete shear design for minor bending

• Subgrade reaction modulus input now also using absolute heights.

• Export function to GGU-STABILITY improved.

• Bugfix: Analysis of Sum V: Query for round cross-sections for steel piles

• Bugfix: Steel design to new standards and permanent loads

• What´s new: Three-dimensional passive earth pressure to DIN 4085:2011-05

• Bugfix: Steel design to new standards and permanent loads

• Bugfix: Steel design to new standards and permanent loads

• Show analysis of sum V

• Lateral pressures for passive earth pressure implemented.

• Loading to ZTV-Lsw-88 in terms of M and H can be determined.

• Query and note on possible tensile force at pile toe added.

• Bugfix: Determination of design normal force for bored piles without moment loading.

• Bugfix: Open/Save dialog box in Vista and Windows 7.

• Section lists can now be appended and double sections can be deleted.

• Groundwater level can now also be at the top of the wall.
• Explanation of analysis of passive and active berms in output table.

• Buckling analysis to DIN EN 1993-1-1 implemented

• Bugfix: Shear design concrete + new standard during small moment loads

• Soil designations can be displayed in the main graphics

• Mini-CAD Version 7.10: Layers can be hidden and unhidden.

• Analysis of earth pressure for passive and active berms with highly variable unit weights in the berm region.

• Analysis of earth pressure for passive and active berms with highly variable unit weights in the berm region.

• New Features

• New Features

• New Features

• Bugfixes

• Bugfixes

• Calculation of kpch to DIN 4085(new)

• Calculation of kpch to DIN 4085(new)

• New partial factor to DIN 1054 Corrigendum 4 (Oct 2008)

• New Features

• Crack width verification to DIN 1045-1

• Area load and bounded surcharge propagation angle for several layers with differing friction angles.

• Bugfix: The equivalent ep coefficient was previously only checked at layer boundaries. This can now be specified for intervals of 0,5 m ("Editor 1 / "Active earth pressure").

• Bugfix: "Differentiate active + passive soil properties" activated and active berms defined: Analysis now with friction angle on the active side.

• Bugfix: New standard: Displacement BCs with value <> 0.0 and anchor predeformations are now correctly handled.

• Bugfix: "generate line loads".

• New standards implemented.

• Passive ep can be placed in front of wall when using old standards.

• Active berms: Surcharge calculated alternatively via bounded surcharges (global safety factors only, always active for partial safety factors).

• Passive ep to DIN 4085 (phi <= 35°) otherwise Caquot/Kerisel may be selected.

• Editor 1 / "Analysis options" instead of "Project identification".

• Passive earth pressure to DIN 4085 (new).

• Iteration precision improved.

• Iteration precision improved.

• Output table printing improved.

• Output table printing implemented as graphic element.

• Bug in "Recalculate image coordinates" with Mini-CAD and absolute heights corrected.

• For bench modelling with user-defined earth pressure coefficients and active benches, the program automatically switches to earth pressure coefficients in accordance with DIN 4085.

• Updated: Design legend.

• Legend subgrade module implemented.

• Updated: Space passive earth pressure according to DIN 4085.

• Batch print implemented.

• Space passive earth pressure according to DIN 4085.

• Knowing the effective stress, every section can now be tested.

• By selecting "Use absolute height", you can now choose to reference the levels of soil layers, etc ...to the pile head.

• Cast in place piles is subdivided into Quadratic piles and Bored piles.

• The pile moment of inertia for Quadratic and Bored piles are now calculated automaitcally.