Geotechnical Software - Deep Foundation
Welcome to Geotechnical Engineering Modelling Software (GEMSai), your leading solution for deep foundation analysis.
Our software module is designed to support a wide range of structures, including buildings, bridges, wharves, jetties, and towers.
By leveraging advanced analysis techniques, GEMSai delivers accuracy and reliability in foundation analysis, empowering you with robust insights and optimal solutions.
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Versatile Application: Our software enables analysis of piles in different environments, including land, bridges, and water-front structures.
Flexible Loading Analysis: With GEMSai, you can accurately analyse the loading on piles in both axial (compressive or tensile) and lateral (shear and moment) directions.
Wide Range of Pile Types:Whether you're working with bored piles (cast-in-situ concrete, CFA), driven piles (precast concrete, cast-in-situ concrete, steel), or piles with various cross-sections, our software has you covered.
Consideration of Soil Conditions: GEMSai takes into account various soil types such as clay, sand, and rock, as well as critical soil conditions like the groundwater table and scour, ensuring comprehensive and accurate analysis.
Module-based Approach: Our software includes three essential modules for pile foundation analysis:
Pile Capacity Estimation: Determine the maximum load-bearing capacity of your piles efficiently.
Axial Load Analysis: Analyse the axial load behaviour and performance of your piles.
Lateral Load Analysis: Assess the response of piles under lateral loading conditions, including shear and moment. Supports a Hybrid p-y model for liquified sand for post-earthquake / seismic pile assessment.
Linear and Non-linear Analysis: GEMSai offers both linear and non-linear methods of analysis, giving you the flexibility to choose the most suitable approach for your project requirements.
Industry-Standard Procedures: Benefit from our software's inclusion of various common procedures used in practice, ensuring compliance with industry standards and enhancing the reliability of your analysis results.
This video gives a product overview of GEMS Comprehensive Pile Foundation Software. The software supports analysis of land, bridges and water front piles.
This video gives an overview of GEMS Comprehensive pile foundation software followed by a hands on session on pile capacity estimation.
This video gives a brief introduction to the GEMS Comprehensive pile foundation software followed by a session on applying axial loads and lateral loads and performing axial load analysis and lateral load analysis.
One click computation and analysis for all load cases and modules
Axial pile capacity estimation
Analysis of the pile foundation under lateral and axial loads
Piles of circular, square, rectangular, circular-tubular & I or H cross sections can be analysed.
Multiple load cases
Linear & Non-linear analysis models
Multiple axial, lateral loads and lateral moments can be specified along the length of the pile at various depths (up to 20 including pile head) for each load case
Static and cyclic loadings can be incorporated for lateral analysis
Distributed lateral load (triangular, uniform, or trapezoidal) can be given
Self-weight of pile may be included if required
Pictorial representation of the pile and soil layers
Graphical representation of loading diagrams for each load case
Facility of prescribing lateral displacement, rotation & rotational spring at the pile head
User can prescribe axial and flexural rigidity of pile to take reinforcement of pile into account
Local scour and ground water table consideration
Clay, sand, rock layers can be specified
Automated workflows
Interactive AI assistant
Export results to Microsoft Word, Excel & PDF
Support of Windows, Mac
Available on cloud using a browser
Data can be input in either SI units or ‘Commonly used American units’ (Kips for force and foot for length)
Handy tool for resolving loads in axial and lateral direction
Piles are used to provide foundation support to wide ranging structures such as buildings, bridges, wharves, jetties and towers. Piles may be broadly classified into several types as shown below.
| Pile Types | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Based on soil displaced | Displacement | Part Displacement | Non- displacement | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Based on pile material & method of construction | Driven | Driven | Bored | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Precast concrete | Cast-insitu-concrete | Precast concrete | Steel | Cast-insitu-concrete | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Square, Rectangular | Circular | Hollow cylindrical | Tubular | H-section | Circular | With enlarged base | CFA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pile Types | ||
|---|---|---|
| Soil Displaced and Method of Construction | Pile Material | Cross Section |
| Displacement (Driven) |
Precast Concrete | Square, Rectangular |
| Cast-insitu-Concrete | Circular | |
| Part Displacement (Driven) | Precast Concrete | Hollow Cylindrical |
| Steel | Tubular H-Section |
|
| Non-Displacement (Bored) | Cast-insitu-Concrete | Circular With enlarged base CFA |
The choice of the pile type is governed by sub-soil strata, ground water conditions, its chemical composition, facility of construction, local experience, available technology and cost.
The loading on piles can be in axial direction (compressive or tensile) and in lateral direction (shear and moment). The loading may be due to self-weight of structures, live loads, wind and earthquake forces. In water front-structures forces due to ship impact and mooring forces will require consideration. In bridge piles, scour around piers needs to be taken in to account. Abutment piles will also be subject to lateral earth pressure. In many instances axial and lateral forces will act above the ground level requiring consideration of beam column action. In all cases the piles designed should meet the serviceability and safety requirements under all loading conditions.
The pile analysis software is developed keeping in view all the above requirements. This pile analysis software can be used in several ways towards achieving design requirements:
Comprehensive Pile Foundation Analysis (Land, Bridge & Waterfront Structures)software of GEMSai provides feature rich & easy-to-use program modules for the all the above analysis. There are three modules available.
The pile analysis software is developed keeping in view all the above requirements. This pile analysis software can be used in several ways towards achieving design requirements:
Pile Capacity Estimation Computes the ultimate axial capacity under compressive or tensile load from soil layer properties, with a breakdown into shaft friction and base resistance at various depths.
Supported methods by soil type:
A distance of 3D develops full base resistance in strong layers; a 3D safe distance from the pile tip prevents punch-through of underlying weak layers. User-prescribed parameters are also supported.
Axially Loaded Pile Analysis This module has two independent sub modules:
(a) Axial pile deformation analysis
Pile is modelled as an elastic structural member having the cross section of the pile and the elastic properties of the pile material. The soil support providing the shaft friction is modelled by a set of side springs based on t-z curves. The tip resistance provided by the pile base the base is modelled by a spring based on Q-z curve.
The software supports both ‘Elastic Bi-linear’ and ‘Non-Linear’ approaches for modelling and any one of them can be selected for analysis.
In the ‘Non-Linear’ approach, for the soil layer, based on the tmax and qmax values calculated , non-linear t-z curves (interface shear stress- vertical pile movement at that point) and q-z curve (bearing stress and toe displacement) are developed based on API-2011 guidelines. In the case of rock layers, using the tmax and qmax values, t-z and q-z relationships are modelled by a bilinear elastic – plastic curve based on the elastic modulus and Poisson ratio of the rock layer.
In the ‘Elastic Bi-linear’ approach, for the soil layer, t-z and q-z relationships are modelled by bilinear elastic – plastic curves based on the elastic modulus, Poisson ratio ,tmax and qmax for the layer.
The axial pile analysis follows a non-linear finite element model using the axial rigidity of the pile and the nonlinear soil support based on the t-z curves and q-z curve. . The analysis uses an Iterative approach to achieve convergence.
The analysis provides displacement of the pile head under a given load on the pile head, variation of axial load along the pile length, and the load carried by the pile base. Different loads applied on the pile head and the corresponding head displacements provide the load displacement curve.
(b) Generation of t-z and Q-z curves
t-z and Q-z curves are generated internally and consumed by the axial deformation analysis. They are not exposed to the user for direct viewing or analysis. API-based methods also account for reduction in post-peak adhesion in clay layers through a factor R.
Methods used internally for curve generation by soil type:
The tmax and qmax values that anchor these curves are computed from the methods listed in the Pile Capacity Estimation section.
Laterally
Loaded Pile Analysis This module has two independent sub modules.
Commonly used linear models based horizontal subgrade modulus Kh for clay and rock and linearly varying subgrade modulus with depth Nh for soft clay and sand can also be chosen.
(a) Lateral pile deflection analysis.
Analysis of a pile subjected to lateral load and moment is carried out in this module. Finite element based approach is adopted to model the pile and the soil support in which the pile is divided in to a number of elastic beam bending elements. The method allows consideration of inhomogeneous and non-linear modelling of soil support. The lateral soil support for the pile is modelled by the well-known p-y springs.
The following boundary conditions may be given at the pile head.
(a) prescribed lateral displacement
For pile having free head condition both lateral load and moment can be prescribed at the pile head. With other conditions only lateral load can be prescribed and pile head moment will be determined from the analysis. The method can consider the effect of axial loading due to beam column action in lateral pile analysis. The pile head can project above the ground.
The finite element discretisation not only takes in to account the specified pile make-up but is also optimized for better accuracy by adopting a graded mesh along the pile length. An iterative procedure based on secant modulus approach is used for convergence.
(b) Generation of p-y curves.
p-y curves are generated internally and consumed by the lateral deflection analysis. They are not exposed to the user for direct viewing or analysis.
Methods used internally for p-y curve generation by soil type:
The Hybrid model for liquified sand is particularly useful for assessing post-earthquake pile behaviour, where sand layers may have liquefied and lost significant lateral resistance.
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