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General Features of Geotechnical Module
The ANSYS/CivilFEM Geotechnical utilities were
created with the main purpose of becoming a
powerful tool to allow civil engineers to deal
with the most typical and advanced soil mechanics
2D and 3D problems with any kind of Beam, Shell
and Solid elements.
Its intuitive interface allows creating complex
structural models and simulating the
soil-structure interaction rapidly and in detail,
taking into account the nonlinear materials,
geometry and contact conditions as well as the
design and checking of the structural elements of
the projects.
With the capabilities that ANSYS/CivilFEM
provides, a wide range of projects can be
performed such as: tunnels, dams, piles and micro
piles, foundation slabs, geotextiles-geogrids,
reinforced soils, retaining structures, etc.
Soils and Rocks Library
Geotechnical properties and correlations.
User library.
Generation of Layered Soils
Automatic generation of layered soils model
and properties.
Tunnel Sketch
Generation of reinforced earth
Superficial Foundation
Geotechnical properties and correlations
User-defined library.
Generation of Layered Soils
Automatic generation of layered soils model
and properties
Superficial Foundations
Footing and continuous foundations
2D/3D soil-structure interaction model
Slab Foundations
3D soil-structure interaction models
3D Soil Foundation Stiffness models with
calculation of precise, average, maximum and
minimum values
Deep Foundations
Pile Cap Wizard:
Automatic generation of regular polygonal
or circular pile cap groups
Pre-Design of the Piles’ length
Automatic calculation of the reinforcement
amount required according to the selected Code
(Punching, Primary and Secondary reinforcement
of both sides for rigid and non-rigid pile caps
Retaining Structures
Calculation of Sheet Piles 2D (automatic
wizard) -3D
Non-linear construction sequence analysis
One or two sheet piles can be analysed
simultaneously including anchors, water level,
layered soils, applied loads.
With any ANSYS/CivilFEM cross section
Earth Pressure Utility
Apply pressures and forces corresponding
to: Active pressure and soil weight on the
selected elements.
Seepage analysis
Underground structures (tunnels)
Terrain Initial Stress
Automatic calculation of the initial stress
without strain from a given topography
Hoek & Brown Failure Criteria (rocks)
Plastic Constitutive models: 2D/3D
Drucker-Prager and 2D Mohr-Coulomb (plain strain)
Birth and Death of elements features
(construction sequence analysis)
Improvement of soils
Birth and Death of elements features for jet
grouting, gravel column.
Slope Stability Analysis
Classic Failure Methods
Fellenius.
Bishop.
Janbu and Janbu with correction factor
Morgenstern price
US Corps of Engineers
FEM results.
Actions on the model: Seismic effect, loads
and hydrostatic load over the slope surface
Seepage Analysis
Obtain the water table and water pressure.
Obtain the saturation line for 2D problems
Export the obtained pore water pressure to
slope stability problems. The finite element mesh
used in both analysis can be different.
Calculate filtered flows through boundaries
Calculate filtered flows
