Retaining Wall EXPERT

With the current version, in addition to the adaptations to run under Windows^®11, additional extensions are available in RTwalls, which make the use clearer and more efficient:

• The output of RTwalls has been fundamentally revised. System and load information with all input parameters and results are output separately. The different construction phases are taken into account. Each list type can thus be better user-defined configured.
• Revision of the quick input and the input of the terrain profile.
• Improved output for wall lengths, anchors and soil layers with coloring according to DIN 4023.
• Revision of the output for better testing and traceability with indication of the calculation parameters and formal correlations, e.g. for the determination of the earth resistance in front of narrow pressure surfaces.

The following new features are available with the previous introduced program environment:

• New program environment with overview at a glance
• Practice-oriented user guidance for different wall types
• Simple quick input for each wall type
• User-oriented module concept for sheet pile walls, soldier pile walls, bored pile walls and diaphragm walls
• Menu ribbon 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 via load cases with attributes and optional combination of loads according to specified design situations
• New output list with individual configuration and filter options

• 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