GEO5 - BIM solutions · This presentation • Fine s.r.o. –a bit history • Geotechnical software GEO5 • Show of GEO5 –Gravity wall, Slope stability • This seminar - how

Jiří Laurin

GEO5

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This presentation

• Fine s.r.o. – a bit history

• Geotechnical software GEO5

• Show of GEO5 – Gravity wall, Slope stability

• This seminar - how to do it, changes

• Question? After each session, during coffee breaks, or

you can interrupt me.

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Bit of history – Prague 1989

• Velvet revolution

• Private enterprise, many small firms

• Demand for easy, user friendly software

• Modular system, low cost

• Based on the Czechoslovak

standards CSN

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Bit of history – first leaflets, exhibitions (1990)GEO – geotechnical software, FIN – structural software, TRUSS – timber roofs

Bit of history – GEO3 (1995)

• DOS version

• Graphical enviroment

• 15 programs

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GEO4 – Windows version (2000)

• 20 individual programs, new FEM, Tunnel

• English localization

• GEO4 – good sales (UK, Spain, Poland, Hungary,

India, Malaysia, Singapore) even it was based on CZ

standards

• First dealers network, first international feedbacks

Need for international version => GEO5

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GEO5 – first international version (2004)

• More theories

(earth pressures, settlement, bearing cap.)

• New possibilities (earthquake, CPTs)

• English and metric units

• All coefficients and partial factors could be change by user

• Recommended settings for various countries

• Built-in help

• First dealers meetings

• Localization to languages/Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Russian, Turkish/

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GEO5 – Eurocodes, certifications (2010)

• Implementation of Eurocode EN 1997 - 1

• Pretty complicated, not clear standard

• National Annexes (now about 15)

• Design approaches 1 - 3 -> New user settings

• Certification in Russia

• Selling in USA and worldwide as Bentley GSA

( Geostructural Analysis)

• Certification in China 8

GEO5 now

• 5000 users in 120 countries, 300 universities

• 17 language localizations

• Many standards, codes, theories

• Verification methodology /EN, LRFD, SF, LST, Chinese/

• 50 dealers worldwide /best 2016 CZ, Russia, Poland, China, Hungary, USA, Chile/

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• Sheeting Design

• Sheeting Check

Excavations

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• Slope Stability

• Rock Stability

• MSE Wall

Slope and Rock Stability

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• Spread Footing

• Piles

• Pile CPT

• Micropile

• Plate

• Pile Group

Foundations

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• Cantilever Wall

• Gravity Wall

• Gabion

• Prefab Wall

• Masonry Wall

Retaining Structures

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• Nailed Slopes

• MSE Wall

Reinforced Slopes

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• Settlement

• Ground Loss

Settlement Analysis

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• FEM

• Tunnel

• Waterflow

• Consolidation

Finite Element Analysis

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• Terrain

• Shaft

• Abutment

Special Programs

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GEO5 – About the program

Unique combination of analytical solutions and FEM

− Wall => Slope stability => FEM

• User friendly graphical environment

• Direct links between programs

• Geoclipboard (exchange of data between programs)

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GEO5 – About the program

Comprehensive outputs and protocols

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GEO5 – About the program

Built in help – 1200 pages

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GEO5 – About the program

Supporting materials:

- Engineering manuals- Video tutorials

Visit our website

www.finesoftware.eu

or our Youtube channel

GEO5software

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GEO5 – About the program

Examples of use, Project gallery on our web presentation

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Why GEO5

• Confidence – most important

• 28 years – Test of Time

• Hotline, support, bug-fixing

• Automatic actualization of software

• Development based on feedback from customers

• Two versions per year

- spring release 1st May

- new edition 1st November

• Maintenance program (new versions for free,

discounts from new orders, hotline by phone)

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This seminar – optimization of program

• Not doing seminars very often

• Too much programs and topics, different knowledge

and interests of audience

• Can modify program according to you

• Who you are?

Geotechnical eng., structural eng., transport eng.,

academicians, students, others.

• What geotechnical programs do you use?

GEO5, Plaxis, Midas, RockScience, Geoslope, GGU….

• Any special interest?

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Program

• 9:30 – 10:00 Shallow foundations (Boris Kormanik)

• 10:30 - 11:00 Excavations (Jiri Laurin)

• 11:00 - 11:30 Slope stability (Boris Kormanik)

• 12:00 - 12:30 Deep foundations (Boris Kormanik)

• 12:30 - 13:30 FEM (Jiri Laurin, Boris Kormanik)

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