Retaining Wall EXPERT

RTwalls has received a new program environment that makes graphic-interactive editing even easier and opens upat the same time  new possibilities. With the result output via RTreport, different output formats as short, long and detail lists can now be individually adapted to the requirements of the user or an individual project. The following new features are available:

• New program environment with overview at a glance
• Practical user guidance for different wall types
• Simple quick input for every wall type
• User-oriented modular concept for sheet piles, soldier pile walls, bored pile walls and slotted walls
• Menu band for input, calculation and design as well as evaluation
• Modern program environment with tree views, table input and clear property table
• Various functional enhancements such as preview/optimization of geotechnical verifications
• Differentiation of loads using load cases with attributes
• Optional user-defined combination of loads according to predefined design situations
• New output list with individual configuration and filter options
• From version 19 on, all new program versions are installed in parallel
• Adaptation to the latest version of the Eurocodes and executability under Windows®10

• retaining walls for deep excavations incl. wall dimensioning
• Polygonal ground level with ground and material database
• Berms on valley and earth side
• Vertical sheet pile, soldier pile, bored pile or slotted wall with different wall designs  
• Profile DB for I, IPE, HE, U and 2xU profiles as well as sheet piling of the types Arbed, Hoesch, Larssen, Corus, British Steel and Skyline
• Supports or anchors with/without prestressing for cantilever, one-span and multi-span girders with different base supports
• Different excavation / retreating stages included
• Hydrostatic data entry of water levels in front of and behind the wall  
• Verification for sum of vertical forces, required anchor lengths, slope stability incl. friction circle analysis and anchor design as well as design of the wall
• Earthquake analysis considering the loads during construction

Being a geotechnical application, the enhanced version RTwalls EXPERT in particular offers the following advantages:

• clearly arranged and efficient working surface with support of parameterised inputs
• completely graphic-oriented input with optimum control of all modifications
• unlimited application for arbitrary retaining wall systems
• fast familiarisation with introductory example
• simple calculation and design of different wall systems with arbitrary anchorages or outriggers
• usage of templates
• clearly arranged and continuous result output with preselection for graphics