Integrated design environment
Tabbed notebook interface
- Separate pages for Data Input: Project, Piles, Layers, Loads, and Options
- NEW in 1.5! Separate pages for Results: Messages, Report, Graph, and Text
- Toolbar gives quick access to commonly-used commands
- Status bar summarizes key information
Data entry pages
 Improved in 1.5! Simple to use data entry pages with symbols and units specified- Change units on-the-fly to suit the way you want to work
- All data is validated as it is entered
 Messages page
- Displays the results of data validation
- Displays the result of running the analysis
Report page
- Built-in web browser
- Summary reports: input parameters and key results
- Detailed reports: pile loads, pile stresses, group stiffnesses, group flexibilites, load-displacement
- XML and XSLT technology allows reports to customized (as part of technical support service)
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Graph page
 NEW in 1.5! Fully-customizable graphs - alter line colours, lines weight, titles, axes, etc - Available graphs: Load vs displacement, moment vs rotation, and combined
- Pile layout
Tools
- Pile Group Wizard
- Licence Registration Wizard
Printing
- Improved in 1.5! Greater control of report and graph printouts
- Full range of printers supported
Geotechnical capabilites
Calculation engine
- Calculation engine based on PGroupN v1.5, used under exclusive licence from Geomarc
- PGroup code used under licence from TRL Ltd
- Linear and non-linear continuum analysis (full boundary element method solution)
- Up to 200 piles (more on request with technical support)
- Up to 50 elements per pile
- Very lengths, diameters, rakes, and moduli separately for each pile
- Vertical, horizontal, and moment loading in 2 or 3 dimensions (not including torsion)
- Hyperbolic soil model, for cohesive and cohesionless soils
- Multi-layers (homogeneous or Gibson profile within each layer)
- Up to 50 soil layers
- Fully rigid pile cap
- Finite or semi-infinite ground profile
- Pile rake in any direction
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