GEO 5
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, announced has released an update for Geotechnical Software 2014, is a comprehensive integrated suite that addresses a wide range of geotechnical and analysis challenges including shoring excavation, retaining walls, foundation, settlement, slope stability, tunnels, pilling, and more.The integrated modules share a common workflow that allows easy review of alternate designs that conform to industry standards and specifications, as well as analysis by discrete construction stages, various analysis scenarios, or evaluation of analytical solution versus Finite Element Method (FEM) solution of the same geotechnical problem.Bentley’s geotechnical software is designed by experienced engineers who fully understand the standards and requirements that facilitate high-quality data management, reporting, and analysis in the industry.Bentley provides the following geotechnical design & analysis offerings.
Bentley GeoStructural Analysis
Bentley’s GeoStructural Analysis suite includes Excavation Analysis, Foundation Analysis, and Retaining Wall Analysis listed below, plus the following: Rock Stability, Ground Loss, Settlement, Task Manager
Bentley GeoStructural Excavation Analysis
GeoStructural Excavation Analysis suite is designed to address analysis of excavation and retaining walls. It is most suitable and the most important suite for small companies. It consists of the following programs; Earth Pressures, Sheeting Design, Sheeting Check, Slope Stability
Bentley GeoStructural Finite Element Analysis
The GeoStructural Finite Element Analysis suite contains tools for performing Finite Element modeling for a range of geotechnical problems including excavation, slope stability, foundation beams, settlement, tunneling, and more.
Bentley GeoStructural Foundation Analysis
GeoStructural Analysis Foundation design modules enable users to quickly and easily develop sophisticated scenarios to facilitate designing, testing, and optimizing different foundations.
Bentley GeoStructural Retaining Wall Analysis
GeoStructural Analysis provides a complete range of modules to develop in-depth, accurate, and fail-proof designs for all types of retaining wall structures (abutment, nailed slopes, cantilever, gabion and gravity walls, etc.).
Analytical methods of computation allow users to design and check geotechnical structures quickly and with high efficiency. GEO5 geotechnical analytical package is offered as a complement to DIANA software, which is based on the finite element method. Using both tools allows increasing design safety by comparing two independent solutions.The GEO5 analytical package is designed to solve various geotechnical problems and design checks including Eurocode7. The powerful and easy-to-use package consists of individual programs with a consistent graphical interface. Each program is used to analyze a different geotechnical task but all modules communicate with each other in order to form the integrated package. GEO5 suite covers the following geotechnical problems
- Foundation Design
- Sheet piling design
- Retaining Wall Design
- Stability Analysis
- Settlement analyses
- Digital Model of Terrain (DTM)
An important feature of the GEO5 programs is that they conform to standards and practices in many countries. They are based on general and well known theories; only the form of the final check depends on the individual standard and country. All GEO applications allow users to check structures according to the theory of limit states and also the theory of safety factors. Any reduction factors, analysis coefficients etc. may be set by the user. That way, he/she is able to design a structure according to Eurocodes or British, American, Australian, Indian and other national standards within one module. Design of concrete structures is performed according to standards EC2, PN, BS, IS, ACI etc.