LapPilePro is a thorough finite element based software for the design/analysis of shoring systems using a single input/output screen for the quick visualization of the effect of input data variations on the response of the shoring system.

Prepared in accordance with Eurocode 7 & 8, DIN, NAVFAC, FHWA, Reese, Van Impe, Bowles, Das, Thomlinson. It is a well documented software, including a user's and a technical manual, and thoroughly validated using actual field cases, and step by step hand calculations.

Features

LatPilePro is a Finite Element based program that blends robustness to flexibility, practicality,
ease of use and friendliness. Hopping between various screens to chase an answer
have been eliminated in favour of a single input/output screen. It offers the following main
features:

• Single Input / output screen for quick visualization the effect of input data variations on
  the response of the shoring system.
   
• Variable pile spacing and Variable pile / wall section inertia.
   
• Spaced piles or continuous shoring systems (secant piles, diaphragm walls ...)
   
• Sloping terrain in front or behind the pile.
   
• Braced and Anchored systems.
   
• Multiple choices for the surcharges (e.g. uniform, point, line)
   
• Up to 16 support levels and 8 soil layers may be analyzed
   
• Variable anchors' spacing and inclination.
   
• Computer Generated or User choice of soil-grout friction (Fs) &
  
  modulus of subgrade reaction (Ks).
   
• Automatic calculation for the anchors grouted lengths.
   
• Ability to input concentrated loads and Moments at any level.
   
• Staged construction is as simple as a click of a mouse. The program can generate the construction stages on its own or the user may override this feature and enters his/her own. The results are displayed to the screen with the overall envelope drawn in red with the maximum reactions & other relevant values already picked out and displayed. The user does not have to search through lengthy output to find these maximums.
   
• Ability to specify a perched water table behind and/or in the front of the retaining system. This feature may be used also to simulate the presence of a tension crack filled with water.
   
• Select one out of seven soil pressure diagrams including the conventional triangular distribution which is calculated automatically by the program for a multitude of soil layers.
   
• Ability to force a minimum pressure on the soil pressure diagrams that are in tension which were normally taken a zero within the tension zone.
   
• Select between the Rankine (default) and Coulomb's coefficients.
   
• Simulate seismic conditions
   
• Nice graphical display on the Main Page that includes all of the output data including the anchors and their lengths.
   
• The user may read the detailed data numerically on the screen or by tracing the mouse over the output curves.
   
• Print the screen for a concise output report or print a formatted & detailed report with a simple click of a button. Online help which pretty much replaces the need for the user’s manual.