FULL VERSION OF DEEP

Deep Excavation Engineering Program - Contractor Version

Design and evaluate deep excavations.

Soil Spring Analysis with Two opposite walls

Cost & Schedule Estimating Options!!!

Deep Excavation LLC is very proud to introduce perhaps the most complete and innovative software for deep excavations. This is the first and only software program to offer the complete package in deep excavations: Design, Cost-estimation, Schedule estimation, and project tracking!!!

We are truly happy to announce our collaboration with CeAs, Milan, Italy to bring you a powerfull soil spring analysis option with the capability of including two walls.

This is our best version of the DEEP software program. This is our 8th main version to be released and is a powerful extension to DEEP 2006 Contractor.. Many exiting new features include: a) improved user interface with manully entered (typed) coordinates, b) generating models using a wizard, c) automatic structural redesign features, and d) 3D footing loads, e) Inttelligent cost estimation with local cost factors, overtime, regular shifts, and custom selected construction crews, f) 3-Dimensional building load calculations, g) Plan & Section views with zoom in and zoom out functions, i) Empirical methods of predicting displacements with basal stability calculations, j) Soil spring analysis, k) Undrained - drained modelling for clays, L) Eurocode 2007 and 1997 Part 7 Strength Reduction Factors for embedded walls.

DEEP is a user friendly robust software program that evaluates and aids the design of deep excavations. The design of deep excavations can be a very complicated matter. The designer has to content with many unknowns and factors that influence the behavior of the excavation. Typically, there are two systems in excavations that must be designed: A) the Earth Retention System that contains the earth i.e. the support wall (sheet pile, diaphragm wall, etc.), and b) the Support System (i.e. the internal or external bracing such as rakers, struts, or tiebacks) that supports the earth retention system.

Performing detailed calculations for both systems can be a very time consuming process, especially when parameters have to be changed. In addition, many current software programs do not offer an integrated platform of structural and geotechnical analyses required to design deep excavations. As a result, the designer is forced to use numerous software programs to analyze the excavation and the structural system seperately. With the exception of finite element analyses, there are very few theoretical solutions for calculating lateral soil pressures from complex surface profiles. Furthermore, the designer has to save under different filenames different stages for the same excavation. As a result, the whole process can become unescessarily complicated and time consuming. DEEP addresses most of these issues and provides an integrated structural and geotechnical platform for designing deep excavations.

The current version of DEEP is based on traditional methods of analyses. While it is realized that traditional methods of analysis have obvious limitations in predicting real behavior accurately, they are important for framing the problem and providing a back-check for more rigorous finite element methods. The beauty of DEEP is that it performs traditional analyses so efficiently that it leaves the designer with ample time to perform more time consuming finite element analyses. Future versions of DEEP will include finite element as well as spring formulations.