Updates & Changes

• Bugfix: Moment self-weight earth side with more than 2 active berms.

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

• 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.
• Bugfix - Save dialog in classic user interface has problems with file extension and filters.

• 5.25: Product management
• 5.26: Bugfix: Soil weight (right) above spur and active berms

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• Heel normal force = -0,5 * shear force at wall base implemented.

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• Bugfix: Moment spur right from self weight of soil above the spur

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• Bugfix: Crack reinforcement spur right

• Bugfix: Graphic output table

• Bugfix Seismic effects: Hydrodynamic pressure on the outer wall surface

• Bugfix Seismic effects: Hydrodynamic pressure on the outer wall surface

• Bugfix: Program crash in reinforced concrete module

• Bugfix: Compaction earth pressure and active berms

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• Reinforcement spur removed top right.

• Bugfix: Passive ep moment M,k for bearing capacity failure now with calibration factor.
• Reinforcement spur supplemented top right.

• 'Thickness (bottom) for vertical wall airside' button introduced to obtain a vertical front when the rear edge of the wall is inclined.

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

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• Bugfix: Increased active earth pressure and equivalent earth pressure coefficient and very high cohesion values.

• Partial safety factor gam,phi according to DIN EN 1998-5 introduced.
  This concerns the calculation of the earth pressure coefficients according to Mononobe and Okabe.
• Bugfix: Groundwater with flow conduits for highly inclined walls.

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• Mouse wheel operation now according to Windows conventions
• Friction spur implemented.

• Bugfix: No more negative ground pressures.

• With more than 1 anchor, the wall toe can be moved horizontally.

• Seismic effects completely revised.

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

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• Bugfix: Bearing capacity and base inclination <> 0.0°

• Wall shear reinforcement: Shear force can be reduced if the cross-section height changes.

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• Bugfix: Calculation of replacement wall height and active berms if the right spur is < 0.0

• Bugfix: Pwp export to GGU-STABILITY with absolute heights.

• Bugfix: Analysis of horizontal water pressure with berms and classical water pressure approach and groundwater beneath the base. The error occurred during the latest update.

• Minimum earth pressure and distributed load implemented compliant with EAB 2021 EB6
•  Water uplift can be displayed.

• Bugfix: Calculation of horizontal water pressure for berms, which drop rapidly above the spur.

• 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.

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• "No traffic on spur" load case

• Export to GGU-STABILITY improved.

• Possible inaccuracy for passive earth pressure after Culmann corrected.

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• Earth pressure after Culmann now also with seismic effects

• Bugfix: Bounded and double-bounded surcharges with berms on the active side.
• Bugfix: Soil weight (right), if active berm lies above the spur.

• Bugfix: Bounded and double-bounded surcharges with berms on the active side.
• Bugfix: Soil weight (right), if active berm lies above the spur.
• Graphical representation of action boundary conditions improved.
• Graphic output table: saving and loading of all settings.
• Bearing capacity analysis now with passive earth pressure moment.

• Average slope inclination calculation for steep berms improved.

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

• The designation for absolute heights can be freely defined.

• Bugfix: Consideration of area surcharges with horizontal loads, located left of the equivalent wall, now also for sliding, overturning and bearing capacity failure.

• Bugfix: Toe and heel moment and shear force analysis for base tilt.

• Bugfix: Visualisation of passive earth pressure for user-defined hatching spacing.

• Moment and shear force analysis for toe and heel now also with Eav and Epv.

• Moment and shear force analysis for toe and heel revised.

• Analysis using ground inclination for active berms optimised.

• Bugfix: Crash in systems with area surcharges and anchors corrected.

• Area surcharges with horizontal components now also for increased earth pressure and at-rest pressure.

• Bugfix: Possible crash in systems with anchors corrected.

• Bugfix: Test of excessively steep active berm angle

• Water pressure hatching spacing can be defined.

• Earth pressure and state variable hatching spacing can be defined.

• Screen visualisation accelerated.

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• Spur (left) may now also be located left of the top of the wall.
• Expandable database with soil properties for common soils.
• Mini-CAD: Layer designations can be defined.
   

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• Inclined equivalent wall removed. No longer allowable by DIN.

• Bugfix: Earth pressure calculation inclined equivalent wall for short spur.

• Bugfix: Analysis of increased active earth pressure.
• Bugfix: Area surcharges and wall with at-rest pressure or increased active earth pressure.
• Reinforced concrete design now also with N,k.
• Moment from self-weight of left spur can be taken into consideration.

• Bugfix: Graphics of footing rotation using old Standard

• Earth pressure calculation after Culmann implemented.
• PDF import implemented.
• Renaming of passive earth pressure 'DIN 4085:1987' to 'DIN 4085:2017 planar slip surfaces'
• Eph,d increase for sliding analysis with wall friction <> "0".

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.

• Background colour for legends implemented

• Export current graphics to Mini-CAD in global coordinates.

• Error report implemented.

• Bugfix: Number of anchors or struts > 0 and reinforced concrete

• Bugfix: Active berms and vertical inclination equivalent wall and reinforced concrete Designed using at-rest pressure or increased earth pressure

• Bugfix: Systems with anchors and variable loads.

• Control parameter introduced for double-bounded surcharges.
• At-rest pressure and increased earth pressure and berms too steep

• Bugfix: Export to GGU-STABILITY: Point loads below base of wall

• Bugfix: Anchors and struts not direct at the top of the wall

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

• Export function to GGU-STABILITY improved.

• Equivalent EP coefficient via phi now also with 45°

• Active berms and at-rest pressure: Berm gradient too steep warning

• Bugfix: Bounded surcharges (active side) with negative surcharge load
• Bugfix: Double-bounded surcharges (also see current manual)

• Check box 'Shear reinforcement unnecessary' if Q,d < VRd,c implemented.
• Concrete design EC 2: Partial safety factors for concrete and steel can be modified.

• Check box 'Shear reinforcement unnecessary' if Q,d < VRd,max removed.

• Bugfix: At-rest earth pressure and wall friction

• New partial safety factors for Hydraulic heave to DIN 1054/A2:2015-11

• Bugfix: Active berms and at-rest earth pressure

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• Bugfix: EQU analysis

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• 'Heave of anchor soil' analysis implemented.

• Bugfix: Active berms and at-rest earth pressure

• Vertical inclination of equivalent wall: active wall friction angle can now no longer be smaller than '0.0'.
• Vertical inclination of equivalent wall: settings option implemented: Active wall friction angle cannot become greater than the value entered. 'Editor 1/Active earth pressure' menu item.
• Bugfix for vertical inclination of equivalent wall: distributed load was not taken into consideration given certain boundary conditions.

• Bugfix: Visualisation of active earth pressure in wall design with at-rest pressure or increased active earth pressure.

• Bugfix: Determination of wall friction angle in the active zone

• Spur design (ground side) now also with shear force at wall base.
• Bugfix: Determination of wall friction angle in the active zone

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• Bugfix: EQU partial safety factors are now saved.

• EQU analysis can be switched off.

• Bugfix: Determination of shear force for heel.

• 3 additional redistribution figures for area loads

• Area load at-rest earth pressure: Now also with increase in active earth pressure by the factor k0/kah. For increased active earth pressure the increase is performed using: [(1
• f) · kah + f · k0]/kah.

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• Bugfix: Analysis of deep-seated stability and active berms

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• Equivalent wall inclination can now also be vertical.

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

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• Partial factors to ÖNORM EN 1997-1 implemented.
• Opening from and saving to network storage media accelerated.

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• Bugfix: Analysis of Ep,h for groundwater levels (active side) above footing base

• Compaction earth pressure: compaction plane can be defined.
• Number of struts or anchors > 0: Foundation base can be with free earth support or bedded.

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• Bugfix: Analysis of deep-seated stability: All data are now saved in the dataset.
• Deep-seated stability analysis now also with increased earth pressure/at-rest pressure

• Bugfix: Header CAD in output table.

• Bugfix: Deep-seated stability: designations in output table

• Bugfix: Deep-seated stability, specify intersection with wall

• An 'elevated' excavation base may generate an excessively large H force and makes sensible bearing capacity analysis impossible. Correction measures are now displayed.

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• Bugfix: Buoyancy safety and Hydraulic heave

• Bugfix: Determination of soil weight (right) for different active unit weights.
• Bugfix: Determination of soil weight (right) if the groundwater is above the intersection of the equivalent wall with the rear wall face.

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

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

• Seismic effects implemented to EuroCode 8.

• Bugfix: Number of anchors = 0 and area loads <> 0 and earth pressure redistribution selected.

• Wall can now also be designed using increased active earth pressure, if active earth pressure is specified for stability analysis.

• Message 'Footing rotates towards the ground!' is no longer displayed if settlement eccentricity is too large.

• Bugfix: Sign error for equivalent wall inclination for alpha <> 0.0 rectified.

• Bugfix: Determination of toe and heel moment.

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• Bugfix: Earth pressure analysis with active berms and high groundwater table or strata of highly variable bearing capacity at the top of the wal

• Generate triangular load from stepped loads

• Partial safety factors to Eurocode 7
• Undo function implemented.
• Deflection curve can be visualised with footing rotation.

• Bugfix: Horizontal water pressure calculation

• Bugfix: H and M resulting from water pressure now also in the output table.

• Sliding safety without passive earth pressure implemented.

• Bugfix: Groundwater level (left) above spur.
• What´s New: Passive berms are analysed using the algorithm published in the 1977 Piling Handbook.

• Bugfix: Berm loads are now taken into consideration correctly.

• Now possible to export area loads from horizontal loading to GGU-STABILITY (V 9.31) as horizontal line load.

• Bugfix: Area loads subject to horizontal loading.
• Bugfix: Open/Save dialog box in Vista and Windows 7.

• Bugfix: Area loads subject to horizontal loading and width of right heel = 0.0.

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

• Compaction earth pressure not adopted for stability analysis

• Bugfix: Wall friction angle adopted for stability analysis and at-rest or increased active earth pressure

• Analysis of reinforced concrete can now be carried separately with at-rest earth pressure.

• Bugfix: Determination of design moment of heel.

• X-value of the V-load at the wall head is not set no more on half wall head width

• Crack width analysis implemented for spurs.
• d1 for stem, toe and heel are always displayed.

• Program name and version can be entered in the General legend.

• Maximum allowable wall inclination beta now -15°.

• Soil designations can be displayed in the main graphics

• Sign graphics in menu item 'Editor 2/Action boundary conditions' now correct.

• New Features

• Determination of horizontal force

• Reinforcement (wall) DIN 1045-1 for thick walls

• Distribution of reinforcement (wall) can be sent to output table.

• Horizontal area loads now also with at-rest earth pressure and increased active earth pressure

• Crack width verification: sign N,g,k

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

• Export function to GGU-STABILITY improved.

• New Features

• Load case 3 without overturning analysis implemented.

• Open records using 'Differentiate active + passive soil properties'.

• New Features

• gamma' can now also be given as "0.0".

• Bugfixes

• Graphical visualisation of soil pressures for base tilt