TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Introduction.............................................................................................1 

2 General information...............................................................................2
Units and sign conventions....................................................................3
File handling..........................................................................................4
Input procedures....................................................................................4
Help facilities.........................................................................................5

3 Input (pre-processing) ............................................................................6

The input program.................................................................................6-7
The input menu......................................................................................8-10
Reading an existing project...........................................................11
General settings.............................................................................11-12
Geometry..............................................................................................13
Work planes.................................................................................14
Points and lines............................................................................15
Beams...........................................................................................16
Floors...........................................................................................17
Walls............................................................................................18-19
Connections of structural elements..............................................20
Piles..............................................................................................20-23
Springs........................................................................................24
Line Fixities................................................................................25
Standard boundary fixities...............................................................25
Bore holes........................................................................................26
Loads....................................................................................................28
Distributed loads on horizontal planes........................................29
Distributed loads on vertical planes...........................................30
Line loads...................................................................................31
Point loads..................................................................................31
Material properties..............................................................................32-33
Modelling of soil behaviour.......................................................34
Material data sets for soil and interfaces....................................35-38
Parameters of the Mohr-Coulomb model...................................39-43
Parameters for interface behaviour............................................44-45
Material data sets for beams.......................................................46-48
Material data sets for walls........................................................49-52
Material data sets for floors.......................................................53-55
Material data sets for springs.....................................................56-57
Assigning data sets to geometry components............................58
Mesh generation..................................................................................59
2D mesh generation...................................................................60
 Global coarseness.....................................................................61
Global refinement.....................................................................62
Local coarseness.......................................................................62
Local refinement........................................................................62
3D mesh generation..................................................................63
Advised mesh generation practice............................................64

4 Calculations..........................................................................................65
The calculations menu........................................................................65-66
The calculation tool bar.............................................................67-69
Defining calculation phases.......................................................70
Order of calculation Phases.......................................................71
Inserting and deleting calculation phases...................................71
Load stepping procedures..................................................................72-73
Calculation control parameters.................................................74-75
Iterative procedure control parameters.....................................76-78
Staged construction............................................................................79
Activating and deactivating clusters or structural objects.........80
Changing loads.........................................................................81-82
Reassigning material data sets..................................................83
Changing water pressure distribution.......................................84
Plastic Nil-Step........................................................................85
Staged construction procedure in calculations.........................85
Unfinished staged construction calculation.............................86
Previewing a construction stage.......................................................86
Selecting points for curves................................................................86
Execution of the calculation process.................................................87
Aborting a calculation.......................................................................88
Output during calculations................................................................88-89
Selecting calculation phases for output..............................................90
 Adjustments to input data in between calculations.............................90
 Automatic error checks.......................................................................91

5 Output data (post processing)............................................................92

The output program...........................................................................92
The output menu.................................................................................93-95
Selecting output steps........................................................................96
Deformations.....................................................................................96
Deformed mesh.........................................................................97
Total, horizontal and vertical displacements.............................97
Phase displacements.................................................................97
Incremental displacements........................................................98
Total strains..............................................................................98
Cartesian strains........................................................................98
Incremental strains....................................................................98
 Cartesian strain increments.......................................................99
Stresses...............................................................................................99
Effective stresses........................................................................99
Total stresses..............................................................................100
Cartesian effective stresses........................................................100
Cartesian total stresses...............................................................100
Active pore pressures..................................................................101
Excess pore pressures.................................................................101
Groundwater head.......................................................................102
Structures and interfaces......................................................................102
Beams.........................................................................................102-103
Floors.........................................................................................104
Walls..........................................................................................105-106
Interfaces....................................................................................107
Viewing output tables.........................................................................107
Viewing output in a cross-section........................................................108
Viewing other data...............................................................................109
General project information.......................................................109
Load information.......................................................................109
Material data..............................................................................109
Calculation parameters...............................................................109
Connectivity plot........................................................................110
Overview of plot viewing facilities............................................110
Exporting data.........................................................................................111-112

6 Load-displacement curves...................................................................113
The curves program...........................................................................113
The curves menu.................................................................................114
Curve generation.................................................................................115
Multiple curves in one chart................................................................115
Regeneration of curves.......................................................................115
Formatting options..............................................................................115
Curve settings.............................................................................115
Frame settings............................................................................115
Viewing a legend................................................................................115
Viewing a table...................................................................................115
7 Getting started .....................................................................................116
Installation .............................................................................................116
General modelling aspects ........................................................................116-117
Input procedures .......................................................................................118
Input of geometry objects ..................................................................118
Input of text and values......................................................................119
Input of selections..............................................................................119-120
Structured input..................................................................................121
Starting the program .................................................................................122
General settings..................................................................................122-123
Creating a model................................................................................124-126

8 Raft foundation on overconsolidated clay (Lesson 1) .......................127

Geometry ..................................................................................................127
Creating the input......................................................................................128-143
Performing Calculations ...........................................................................144-149
Viewing Output Results............................................................................150-152

9 Load Capacity of a Bored Pile (Lesson 2)..........................................153

Geometry .................................................................................................154-158
Defining calculation stages ......................................................................159-161
Calculation................................................................................................162
Viewing output results ..............................................................................162-164

10 Load Capacity of a Suction pile (Lesson 3)........................................165

Geometry ..................................................................................................165-170
Calculations ..............................................................................................171-172
Viewing output results ...............................................................................173-174

11 Excavation pit (Lesson 4) .....................................................................175

Input...........................................................................................................176-179
Calculations ...............................................................................................180
Output ........................................................................................................181