Application Improvements
Sheeting Check - design of reinforced concrete & steel cross-sections
Piles - horizontal bearing capacity according to Broms
Walls - new types of foundation below the walls (strip footing, piles)
Slope Stability - earthquake analysis according to Chinese standards
Slope Stability - selection of used methods in Settings
Walls - earthquake analysis according to Chinese standards
Spread Footing - new footing eccentricity verification
Sheeting Check - new catalogues of sheet piles (Larsen Knyssen, Arcelor Mittal)
Sheeting Check - plotting of sheet piles cross-sections
Walls, Spread Footing - user defined input of allowable eccentricity of loading
Walls, Spread Footing - user defined determination of critical cross-sections of steel-reinforced concrete structures
Piles - shear bearing capacity of RC cross-section
Piles - tube cross-section

Visualization & Input Improvements
All - improved printout and export of figures
All - improved input of 2D interfaces - automatic connecting of input elements
All - color distinction of status of stage analysis
3D drawing - improved drawing by smoothing
3D drawing - optimized zoom of entire structure both on screen and in printout

New chapters of Engineering Manuals (Part 3 ) devoted to numerical modeling and analyses in the program GEO5 - FEM have been released.

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