Innovative Geotechnics Pty LtdPileAXL 2014 – A program for single piles under axial loading PileAXL 2014 is a program that analyzes the behaviour of single piles under axial loading applied at the pile head (compression or tension) for both onshore and offshore engineering problems. Both bored piles and driven piles can be analyzed by the program. The program computes the ultimate and factored pile capacities for a range of pile lengths together with the short-term pile settlement curve for a specific pile length. PileAXL 2014 is a quick and simple tool to determine the pile capacity and settlement under the axial load. It is a must-have tool for pile design and analysis by both structural and geotechnical engineers. Material Type Cohesive Soils Cohesionless Soils Rock Model API Clay – Driven Piles USACE Clay – Driven Piles ICP Clay – Driven Piles FHWA Clay – Bored Piles User Define – Driven and Bored Piles API Sand – Driven Piles USACE Sand – Driven Piles ICP Sand – Driven Piles Fugro Sand – Driven Piles UWA Sand – Driven Piles FHWA Sand – Bored Piles FHWA Gravely Sand – Bored Piles GHWA Gravel – Bored Piles User Defined – Driven and Bored Piles General Rock – Bored Piles User Define – Bored Piles Various analysis methods are adopted in PileAXL 2014 to analyze ultimate shaft resistance, ultimate end bearing resistance and total axial capacity of piles as summarized in the table above. Features and Benefits 1. Standard window-style dialogs, push buttons, drop menus, list boxes, EXCEL-like data grid cells, slide bars, radio buttons, check boxes and toolbars can be accessed in the program; 2. Automatic generation of nonlinear t-z and q-w curves for various soil types such as cohesive soils, cohesionless soils and rocks according to the pile installation type. Generated t-z curves for each node and q-w curve at the pile toe location can be viewed, copied and printed. No need to specify the node locations before the analysis in order to access the tz and q-w curve information. Once the analysis is completed successfully, t-z curves for all the nodes and q-w curve at the pile toe location are automatically available to the user. This is very useful when the user needs to use the t-z or q-w curves for input as spring values into other structural models; 3. Resistance factors can be specified by the users for ultimate shaft resistance (compression), ultimate shaft resistance (tension) and ultimate end bearing resistance for the design to be consistent with the current widely-used limit state design concept. Additional reduction factor can be applied to the internal shaft resistance of the unplugged steel pipe section to consider the effects of driving disturbance. Ultimate end bearing resistance within the layered soils is determined by Meyerhof (1976)’s approach with considering the influence effects of upper and lower soil layers; 7. A well-designed result output dialog is provided for the user to view all the relevant results graphically. An interactive graphical presentation of pile and soil layer geometry is provided at the program main interface. 8. the number of soil layers. Different pile section types such as circular section. 6. Detailed analysis results are presented in EXCELlike format and can be easily selected and copied into the third-party program such as EXCEL for further processing.delete.com 9. The user can easily add. insert or modify the input parameters for each soil layer according to the material type.IGEngSoft. Important changes in the input data will be automatically updated in the graph on the main program once the input dialog is closed. All the analysis results along the pile length are presented together with the soil layer geometry. soil layer color. Therefore. Contact us Email: support@IGEngSoft. Switching among different results is very straightforward. certain soil parameters and pile loading will be automatically updated in the graph.com | Web: www. steel H-section. Load-settlement curve can be generated by the program for the specified axial loading at the pile head. the analysis results within each soil layer can be viewed by the user conveniently from the graph of the results. 4. 5. 10. octagonal section and user-defined section can be selected by the user. water table position. Fugro Method and UWA method are available in PileAXL 2014. steel pipe section. soil layer name. Plugged and unplugged options are available to the steel Hsection and steel pipe section. rectangular section. Comprehensive analysis options for offshore pile foundation such as ICP method. soil layer thickness. Relevant information such as ultimate shaft resistance. Innovative soil layer and parameter input dialog is provided to help the user to enter the input data more easily and smoothly. It is very convenient for the user to visually view the input change. Important changes in the input data such as pile length. ultimate end bearing resistance and ultimate axial pile capacity are shown on the loadsettlement curve graph for the specified pile length for quick reference. analysis model type. .
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