Features
- User interface and help system are available in 3 languages: English, German and Arabic
- Analysis of an elastic, a rigid, or flexible foundation
- The numerical model of soil-structure interaction is under 9 calculation methods
- Design of the raft according to ACI, EC 2, DIN 1045, and ECP
- Generation of the FE mesh of the raft with different element types
- Automatic generation of the FE mesh of the raft
- Smoothing the FE mesh
- Direct and arrange all elements
- Refining the FE mesh
- Merge two or more nets
- Split the FE-Net into two or more nets
- Powerful mesh generator (for the generation of square, rectangular, circular, and annular rafts)
- Beam elements for modeling stiff walls on the raft
- Translational and rotational springs on the raft can be added at nodes
- Elastic or fixed rotations and deflections can be taken into account.
- Determining contact pressures, settlements, internal forces, subgrade reactions, and reinforcement of the slab
- Node coordinates and boundary nodes of the FE mesh can be imported from a table via MS Excel
- The arbitrary shape of slabs, holes are also possible
- Variable slab thickness and foundation depth in vertical and horizontal directions
- Consideration of the reduction coefficients α according to DIN 4019 Part 1
- Point loads, line loads, area loads, and moments at any position independent of the finite element net
- Polygonal load with variable ordinates and line moment
- Loading and reloading modulus of compressibility are considered
- The soil is defined by a number of borings each boring has multi-layers with different soil material
- Variable thickness and discontinuous soil strata
- Consideration of the variation of the subsoil in the three directions according to three methods
- Drawing soil layers by different symbols and colors according to DIN 4023 for easy identification
- Consideration of groundwater and overburden pressure effects
- The color representation of the dimensions, slab plans, and results on the screen or printer
- Presentation of the results as values in the plan, contour lines, circular diagrams
- Drawing results in isometric view
- Distribution of results in the plan
- Drawing deformations as deformed mesh
- Principal moments as streaks
- Drawing sections of results from several calculation methods in one view
- Data and results of several projects can be displayed together
- Tabulation of data and final results on the screen or printer
- Results can be saved in an ASCII file
- The drawings can optionally be saved as a WMF file
- There are detailed explanations in the user manual with numerical examples
- Short help information can be requested at any interface location
- Import or export the data to MS Excel
- Export the results and diagrams to MS Excel
- Export the data and results to MS Word
- A group of data with results together in one presentation
- Copying drawings to the clipboard for use in word processors
- Analyzing system of rafts or piled rafts in one mesh
- Analysis of a rigid pile group or free-standing raft on a rigid pile group
- Analysis of a slab floor, plane frame or plane stress, grid
- Analysis of system of many slab foundations
- Analysis of rotational shell, axisymmetric stress, or axisymmetric structures
- Analysis of cylindrical tanks
- Analysis of beam or grid on elastic foundation
- Dynamic analysis of structures
- Determining stresses, strains, and displacements in soil
- Importing references from a DXF-file into ELPLA
- Importing FE-Net as "3DFACE" AutoCAD type into ELPLA
- Create a DXF-File from the finite element mesh or any graphic in the FE-Net mode
- Create a 3DFACE-File from the finite element mesh of rectangular elements
- Reduce computational time and computer storage by using the system symmetry
