The program is used to verify gravity wall design. It offers a number of wall shapes and provides verification of plain concrete cross-sections. The main features of GEO5 Gravity Wall program are:
- Verification analysis can be performed employing EN 1997-1, LRFD or classical approach (limit states, the factor of safety)
- EN 1997 – option to choose partial factors based on National Annexes
- EN 1997 – option to choose all design approaches, consider design situations
- Analysis of internal stability (overturning, slip, bearing capacity of foundation soil)
- Check of concrete cross-sections according to various standards (EC 2, BS 8110, IS456, CSN, PN)
- Verification of stone masonry structures (EC 6, GB 50030-2011)
- Generally layered soil environment
- Built-in database of soil parameters
- Arbitrary number of surcharges applied to structures (strip, trapezoidal, concentrated load)
- Arbitrary number of inserted forces (anchors, safety fences, etc.)
- Modeling of water present in front and behind structures, modeling of artesian water
- Possibility to consider the general shape of gravity wall
- General shape of terrain behind the structure
- Front face resistance in front of the structure (at rest, passive, reduced passive)
- New types of the foundation below the gravity wall (strip footing, piles)
- Berms in front of the structure
- Analysis of earth pressures in effective and total parameters
- Earthquake effects (Mononobe-Okabe, Arrango, Chinese standards)
- Multiple construction stages
- Tensile strength of concrete may be ignored