ge.design — Engineering design

The biggest module in GeoEq covers nine families of analytical geotechnical analysis. Each sub-page below has a focused walkthrough with worked examples and figures, plus the auto-generated API reference at the bottom.

•   Effective stress

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  Total stress, pore pressure, Terzaghi's principle, capillary rise.

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•   Seepage & flow

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  Darcy's law, hydraulic gradient, critical gradient, equivalent k, flow nets.

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•   Stress distribution

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  Boussinesq family, Westergaard, Newmark/Fadum, 2:1 spread.

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•   Bearing capacity

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  Terzaghi, Meyerhof, Hansen, Vesic — full equation with corrections.

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•   Settlement

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  Immediate, primary, secondary, Schmertmann, time-rate.

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•   Earth pressure

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  K0, Rankine, Coulomb, tension crack depth, distributions.

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•   Retaining walls

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  Overturning, sliding, bearing checks, sheet piles (Blum).

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•   Pile design

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  End bearing, α/β/λ skin friction, group efficiency, settlement.

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•   Slope stability

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  Infinite slope, Culmann, Taylor, Bishop's simplified.

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