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GEO5 version 14 has been released

New versions of GEO5 software are released twice a year. Each version contains new tools, improvements and corrections. Read the complete list of changes in section release notes.

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GEO5 version 14

General improvements

  • Graphical printouts with table of soils
  • Export of all topology in DXF format for 1D programs
  • Safety factors and settings for Russia according to SNIPs
  • Chinese language localization
  • Settings for China, implementation of GB 50007-2002 standard
  • Pre-defined slip surface when connecting to Slope stability, new defaults of connection settings
  • Transfer of standard and coeficients settings during connections between programs
  • New help system and helps
  • National Annexes for Czech republic
  • Reinforced concrete
    • Russian standard SNIP 52-01-2003
    • Chinese standard GB 50010-2002
    • American ACI 318 standard 2011
    • Limit strain method
    • Concrete - possibility to compute other characteristics from strength in compression for own material

FEM

  • Axisymetry
  • Georeinforcement with infinitive strength, new helps and rocommendations
  • Faster and more stable analysis of slope stability problem
  • Improvement in black and white printouts of colored scale
  • Visualization improvement of pore pressure outputs

Earth Pressures  Walls

  • New way of computing eartquake effects for high slopes of terrain

 Cantilever Wall  Masonry Wall

  • Possibility to check stem of wall on active pressure (earthquake)

 Slope Stability

  • Possibility to combine total and effective soil properties in one analysis profile
  • New method according to Shahunyanc

 Gabion

  • New material defaults

 Prefab Wall  MSE Wall

  • Possibillity to define shear strength between blocks

 Sheeting Design

  • Simplification of input of friction between structure and soil

 Sheeting Check

  • Simplification of input of friction between structure and soil
  • Output of earth pressures even when structure is not stable

 Spread Footing

  • Chinese standard GB 500072002
  • Russian standard SNIP 2.02.01-83

 Settlement

  • Improvement in black and white printouts of colored scale

 Plate

  • Improvement in black and white printouts of colored scale
  • New boundary condition on line - internal hinge
  • Copy of diagrahms into clipboard

 Piles

  • Ratio of reinforcement according to EN 1992-1-1 chapter 9,8,5f

Corrections

  • Waterflow - correction of analysis of Slope stability while water is above terrain
  • Spread footing - correction of failure of program in bearing capacity for EC7 and too high skew of load
  • Walls, Earth Pressures - wrong printout of coefficient Ka in first layer of soil and inclined terrain
  • Settlement- fixed bug - analysis of consolidation with Edef
  • MSE Wall - fixed bug in analysis according to EN 1997 - Design Approach 1
  • MSE Wall - correction of connection between MSE Wall and Slope Stabilty with input elevation
  • Spread footing -fixed analysing of bearing capacity on undraind subsoil and phi=0 (EN 1997)
  • Cantilever wall - anchoring of wall is now possible for all type of walls
  • Nailed Slopes - correction of internal stability analysis - safety factor / limit states