This program, based on the finite element method, can model
and analyze a wide range of geotechnical problems, including terrain settlement, sheet pile/diaphragm walls, slope stability, excavation analysis. It offers several material models for soils and a variety
of structural elements such as walls, anchors, geotextiles
or geogrids. The GEO5 FEM is used to compute displacements, internal forces in structural elements, stresses and strains
and plastic zones in the soil and other quantities in every construction stage.
With extension modules the program also performs the Tunnel excavation analysis, the steady sate or transient Water Flow analysis or the coupled Consolidation analysis.
Main Features
Variety of conventional and state-of-the-art material models:
Linear elastic model
Modified elastic model
Mohr-Coulomb model
Modified Mohr-Coulomb model with hardening/softening
Drucker-Prager model
Cam Clay model
Hypoplastic model for clay
Wide range of common structural elements:
Concrete walls, pile walls, soldier pile walls (Braced Sheeting) or reinforced tunnel lining are modeled by the beam elements with catalogued profiles and materials
Anchors
Nails
Props
Reinforcements (geotextiles, geogrids)
Contacts elements between soil and structure with nonlinear stress-displacement relation
The model consists of several construction stages to account for the construction process
Any number of surcharges (strip, trapezoidal, line load) can be added to the model in any construction stage
Boundary conditions are generated either automatically or defined specifically for chosen points or lines