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PileGroup Tutorial Examples

Tutorial Example 1. Pile group in clay with battered piles
In this tutorial example, the use of the PileGroup program is demonstrated for analysing a pile group in clay, including battered piles. The example covers the overall workflow—from creating the pile group model to defining soil conditions, applying loads to the pile cap, and reviewing the analysis results.

In this tutorial example, the use of the PileGroup program is demonstrated for analysing a pile group in clay, including battered piles. The example covers the overall workflow—from creating the pile group model to defining soil conditions, applying loads to the pile cap, and reviewing the analysis results.

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Objectives:

  • Start a new project

  • Define soil material parameters with nonlinear p-y curves

  • Create the soil stratigraphy

  • Define water table

  • Define pile sections

  • Create piles within the pile group

  • Define loads on the pile cap

  • Define load combinations

  • Define pile group effects

  • Run pile group analysis

  • View pile group analysis results

Tutorial Example 2. Pile group in sand with pinned pile cap connection
In this tutorial example, the use of the PileGroup program is demonstrated for analysing a pile group in sand. This example involves a 4 x 4 pile group consisting of 16 numbers of 760 mm diameter driven prestressed concrete piles of 16.5 m long, which were spaced at three pile diameters in both directions.

In this tutorial example, the use of the PileGroup program is demonstrated for analysing a pile group in sand. This example involves a 4 x 4 pile group consisting of 16 numbers of 760 mm diameter driven prestressed concrete piles of 16.5 m long, which were spaced at three pile diameters in both directions.

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Objectives:

  • Start a new project after saving and closing the existing project

  • Create piles within the pile group using pile layout wizard tool

  • Define pile cap connection conditions

  • Define user-specified P-Multipliers for pile group effect

  • View pile group analysis results for selected piles

  • View pile head results

  • View p-y curve results along the pile lengths

  • Generate pile group analysis report

Tutorial Example 3. Pile group in sand for TBM launching
Tutorial Example 3. Pile group in sand for TBM launching

In this tutorial example, the use of the PileGroup program is demonstrated for analysing a pile group subject to TBM launching loading. This example involves a pile group consisting of 20 numbers of 1200 mm diameter CFA piles of 20 m long, which were spaced at three pile diameters in both directions.

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Objectives:

  • Create pile group analysis with linear analysis module

  • Define linear analysis inputs

  • Define multiple pile cap loads at different locations

  • Define multiple load combinations

  • View pile head results

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