Changes DC-Cantilever for Windows

Date Version Change

Nov. 17 6.00 Graphic functions for drawing and labelling in the graphics, separate handling of graphics
elements in the input window (displayed in every geometry graphics) and single result
graphics (displayed only in this page), DXF import with support of layers to use the
graphics as a background for the input of elements.

July 17 5.47 Revision of the verification of stability in LS EQU with better separation of the
concentrated loads on the wall for the component Ed,dst.

Jan. 17 5.44 Correct application of the minimum earth pressure with the subst. friction angle also for
slopes.

Jan. 17 5.43 For the design of the foundation we have to apply the soil pressure from the calculation with
earth pressure for wall design. If the soil pressure is not effective over the complete width of
the foundation, this has to be considered when calculating the bending moment in the
foundation. In such cases, the bending moment in the foundation spur at the supported side
may change.

Dec. 16 5.42 For a vertical spur, when checking if a failure surface below the earth block in front of the
spur is critical for the stability against sliding, the friction below the base + passive earth
pressure in front of the spur has to be compared with the friction below the soil block +
passive earth pressure in front of the footing.

Nov. 16 5.41 For the compaction earth pressure the increase from 0 to the full value at the depth z,p is
considered acc. to DIN 4085:2011, 6.6.1 formula (82).

Oct. 16 5.40 Italian program version available. For the verfication against tilting and static equilibrium
(EQU) the degree of utilization is printed.

Oct. 16 5.31 Correction of the destabilizing effect E,d,dst for the stability verification EQU (no correct
separation between dst and stb effect since version 5.26).

July 16 5.30 Support of the T2W interface for import and restart of projects in VCmaster.

July 16 5.27 The approach that slopes in the excavation outside of the passive slip plane (inclined under
theta,p from the toe of the wall) are not applied for the calculation of the passive earth
pressure, is restricted: for a lower excavation level at a greater distance from the wall and
especially for a toe of the wall above the maximum excavation level, other more
unfavorable slip planes are possible. In this case the slope is applied for the passive earth
pressure. In addition, theta,p is calculated more exactly (with application of delta,p).

June 16 5.26 For the verification against overturning acc. to SIA 267, especially for earth pressure loads
the safety factor is not 1.10 for unfavorable permanent loads for LS type 1, but 1.35 (see SIA
260 table 1).

Mar. 16 5.24 Correction of the compaction earth pressure for active and increased active earth pressure: is
was not applied correctly since version 5.22.

Dez. 15 5.22 If directly behind the wall there is a vertical falling slope (no soil to apply no earth pressure
in this area), a compression earth pressure is applied only from this depth as well.

Nov. 15 5.20 For earthquake analysis acc. to SIA 267 the safety factors 1.20 and 1.50 for tan(phi) and c
from SIA are valid instead of the values 1.25 of and 1.40 acc. to Eurocode 8.
Oct. 15 5.18 The new safety factor for flow forces acc. to the change DIN 1054/A2:2015-11 are
available. For already existing project files the new values are only used if the standard is
selected again. For the Eurocode 7 settings the selection of Eurocode 7 should be done once
as well.

Oct. 15 5.17 The compaction earth pressure is now compared with the earth pressure incl. uploads. The
earth pressure from uploads is not added any more to the compaction earth pressure. The
newer ZTV-Ing form (state of 2012) is available (if the option DCZTVK exists). If “ZTVK
form” is selected in the menu Project and the older version of the form is present, the new
one may be selected with Settings - Header ZTVK – „create standard header again”.

Sep. 15 5.15 In the graphics-based output a function „Find“ (menu item Edit - Find or shortcut Ctrl-F)
and a function „Goto“ (View – Goto or Ctrl-G) to jump to specific load cases and
construction phases are available. Improvement for the bearing capacity analysis with
earthquake loads, if the average values of phi and c are > 0.

Aug. 15 5.14 If for the verification of sliding with a vertical spur the friction below the soil block in front
of the spur is critical, a more detailed description of the components is printed in the results.
The weight of the vertical spur is considered.

Aug. 15 5.13 For block loads with small distance to the wall (inclination between front edge of the load
and wall toe > theta), for increased active earth pressure the active earth pressure load is
applied acc. to EAB R 22 (higher total load than for the component from earth pressure at
rest). This option may be switched off under Project – Parameters. The angle of the slip
surface theta is calculated more exactly depending on the angle of internal friction phi, wall
friction angle delta and wall inclination alpha, because the approximation of 45° + phi/2 is
only valid for delta = alpha = 0.

July 15 5.12 For the slope stability analysis we have to use the soil pressure without base water pressure
for the upload on the lamellae below the foundation, because the pore water pressure below
the lamellae is applied additionally.

June 15 5.10 For smaller walls the precision of the analysis of slope stability is increased (lamellae width
and step size for the iteration).

May 15 5.08 For a sheet pile wall below the footing, slip circles going below the sheet pile wall have to
be calculated separately to find the minimum safety. For analysis acc. to SIA the
verification of bearing capacity is done independent from the permitted soil pressure,
because the base normal stress is unknown at this time.

Jan. 15 5.03 If in front of a vertical spur the friction below the soil block down to the spur’s bottom is
critical instead of the passive earth pressure, we must not apply the friction below the base
of the footing in this area. If the application of the passive earth pressure in front of the wall
is switched off, the passive earth pressure in front of the soil block at the vertical spur is
calculated only with an upload from the base of the footing.

Dec. 14 5.00 Support of earthquake loads with analysis acc. to Eurocode 8-5 (Mononobe-Okabe).

Nov. 14 4.314 If Eurocode 2 for Great Britain is selected for the design, the steel types for British Standard
are available.

July 14 4.38 For the analysis of the safety against sliding for undrained soil (base friction angle = 0) the
resistance is calculated as R = c,u * A‘.

July 14 4.37 The eccentricity of the resulting base force is printed additionally with the section forces in
the base.
May 14 4.36 For walls with a foundation spur at the supported side and without cantilever plates the
substitutive wall under theta,a‘ for the earth pressure used in the stability analysis is
displayed in the result geometry.

Apr. 14 4.35 Consideration of the National Annex for Eurocode 7 for Italy, where some special
definitions of NTC 2008 are not contained any more.

Mar. 14 4.34 Acc. to edition 2013 of SIA 267 (12.5.2.4), favorable permanent loads are not applied any
more with a factor of 0.80, but with 1.00. For available project files the former setting is
conserved. If the standard SIA 267 is selected again, the new factor is set.

Jan. 14 4.32 For analysis acc. to SIA 267 the eccentricity and load inclination for bearing capacity have
to be calculated with design values.

Dez. 13 4.30 Design with glass fiber reinforcement Schoeck ComBAR.

Sep. 13 4.20 Bulgarian language is available

May 13 4.19 For bearing capacity analysis acc. to OENORM B 4435-2 (incl. OENORM B 1997-1-1) the
bearing capacity load is the resultant (maybe inclined), not the vertical component.
Improvement for the optimization of the width of the footing.

Apr. 13 4.17 Acc. to SIA 267, 8.5.2.1 the partial factor gamma,R for bearing capacity and sliding may be
set to 1.0, because we use an approved analysis approach. The value is changed when the
analysis standard is selected again. For OENORM B 4435-2 the use oft he ground
inclination coefficient g,c is corrected.

Mar. 13 4.15 For the verification of safety against sliding, we do as well one calculation for permanent
loads alone and one calculation for total loads (like for the verification against overturning).
If the verification for permanent loads alone is the critical one, this is noted in the result
output.

Jan. 13 4.13 Improvement for the definition of safety factors for individual loads which are different
from the standard value acc. to the selected analysis standard.

Dec. 12 4.12 For the friction angle at the base for sliding analysis we use the value of 2/3phi if no input
value is defined. If there is a base inclination, we use the angle of internal friction of the soil
phi in the subst. friction plane. For an inclined base, we use the smaller value of the soil
layers at the front and rear base point for the calculation of the friction, for the subst. sliding
plane the value for the soil layer at the deepest point.

Dec. 12 4.11 Consideration of the minimum reinforcement for ductile component behavior for DIN EN
1992

Nov. 12 4.10 Full support of Eurocode 2 and 3 with definition of all the nationally defined parameters
(NDPs) for any country. Support of DIN 4085:2011 instead of 2007. Like in MS Word and
other programs scrolling is now possible by using the mouse wheel, the zoom function is
used with Ctrl-mouse wheel.
June 12 4.00 Full support of Eurocode 7 with all the 3 Design Approaches. Predefined settings for
Eurocode 7 (proposed values), Germany (DIN EN 1997-1 with DIN 1054:2010), Austria
(OENORM B 1997-1-1), France (NF EN 1997-1), Great Britain (BS EN 1997-1), Italy
(UNI EN 1997-1 with NTC 2008) and Spain (UNE EN 1997-1 with DB SE-C). Settings for
any country are possible with free selection of the Design Approach and the groups of safety
factors.
Selection of the design situation for self-weight only, if there is no load case available (in
Project – Parameters).
Romanian program version available.

Nov. 11 3.38 Design of reinforced concrete acc. to DIN EN 1992 is available.

Aug. 11 3.37 The factor for the passive earth pressure which may be defined for the construction phase
(e.g. use of 50%) is no more multiplied with the factor for the activated characteristic
passive earth pressure, but the minimum of both factors is used. Otherwise e.g. for the
calculation of the bearing capacity, less than the defined part of the passive earth pressure
might be used.

July 11 3.35 Correction for concentrated loads with inlined wall axis – affects only program version
3.34.

Mai 11 3.34 Concentrated loads are applied with their components in longitudinal and lateral direction to
the axis for inclined walls.

Apr. 11 3.32 For overturning check with dead loads: consideration of concentrated loads and uploads on
the spur.

Mar. 11 3.30 If there are live loads, the overturning check is done for dead loads and for total loads
separately. At the end of the output, we print a summary to show if all checks are fulfilled.

Feb. 11 3.26 Correction for minimum reinforcement acc. to EC 2

Okt. 10 3.24 Slopes at the excavated side are only used for the passive earth pressure if they begin within
the passive slip surface (line from the front edge of the footing inclined by theta,p).

Sep. 10 3.23 The hydraulic gradient I is no more restricted to the value of 1.0, but we check that the water
pressure at the retained side will not be negative by the influence of streaming and that the
passive earth pressure will not be positive.

Sep. 10 3.22 More exact calculation of the settlement for linear base pressure: in general smaller
differences in the settlement between excavated and supported side.

July 10 3.20 Design acc. to Eurocode 2 and OENORM B 1992 available.

June 10 3.12 Correction for earth pressure at rest acc. to DIN 4085:2007 on the wall with horizontal
ground surface: δ0 = 0 has to be used.

Apr. 10 3.11 Optimisation of the portion of passive earth pressure to apply and optimisation of the
footing width at one time is improved: in the optimisation of the width the optimised passive
earth pressure has to be consideren. Labelling of the depth of layers in the result graphics.

Apr. 10 3.10 Calculation of the earth pressure acc. to DIN 4085:2007 and acc. to OENORM B 4434
available, see button “Calculation earth pressure“ in the Standard settings under Project –
Parameters. Bosnian program version available.
Mar. 10 3.03 For a vertical spur the passive earth pressure in front of the spur from upload by soil pressure
below the foundation is used not greater than the friction below the earth block in front of
the spur ((soil pressure + block weight)*tan(phi)).

Mar. 10 3.02 Improvement for the transfer of symbol data for additions (from DCNAME0.DXB =
original file DC-Software to DCNAME.DXB = customer data).

Oct. 09 3.00 Only the new type of dongle HASP HL is supported from now on.
New layout for icon and splash window.
Setting the font size for the status line is possible (Settings – Font sizes).
Additions for the design acc. to DIN 1045-1:2008

Sep. 09 2.93 Water level above ground level at the supported side (depth < 0) is supported.

Jan. 09 2.90 Support of the new OENORM B 1997-1-1 based on Eurocode 7

Sep. 08 2.85 Corrections for the calculation of the straming coefficient (influence of the streaming on
earth and water pressure).

Sep. 08 2.84 Changed safety factor acc. to DIN 1054:2005 correction 4:2008-10. For available projects
resp. selected DIN 1054:2005 the standard has to be selected anew to set the changed safety
factor.
Minor corrections concerning streaming at the passive side, safety for base water pressure
and intersection between subst. wall from footing back edge with a slope.

June 08 2.81 If there is a minimum reinforcement resulting in the design, the program prints the statically
required reinforcement additionally in brackets.

June 08 2.80 ZTVK form available as an option (menu item Project – ZTVK-Form), rotated header field
for landscape graphics on portrait page.
Support of the new dongle type HASP HL

Mar. 08 2.75 Correction for the calculation of the intersection between subst. wall and the wall’s back
side if the wall is strongly inclined against the soil, i.e. the footing at the earth side begins at
a higher negative value (left from the origin): change in the earth pressure for the stability
analysis and in the earth load on the foundation spur at the earth side.

Feb. 08 2.74 New safety factors acc. to DIN 1054:2005 correction 3. With previous files click again on
DIN 1054:2005 to select the new safety factors.
With the mouse wheel you may zoom in the input window (Zoom greater/smaller) and
scroll in the results.
Under Settings – Header new function „Adapt“ to adapt the width of the complete header to
the available width of the sheet (e.g. for a printer with another printable width).
Acc. to EAB (recommendations on excavations, 3rd and 4th edition) checking of passive
earth pressure coefficients for curved failure surfaces foll. Caquot-Kérisel is done only from
phi > 35° instead of from phi = 30° acc. to DIN 4085:1987. (Correction june 08: > 35°
instead of = 35°)

Nov. 07 2.72 Correction for the passive earth pressure.

Nov. 07 2.71 For printing the selection of a page range (from – to) is possible.
Oct. 07 2.70 Sectional design of the foundation with output in a table for air and ground side, if width is
more than 0.5 m. Output of the critical position with maximum reinforcement in the footing.
Shear design for direct bearing (wall + foundation air side) only up to a distance d from the
section at the wall.
Design of the foundation incl. normal force from base friction (component of the horizontal
force used for sliding stability, distributed acc. to the base pressure).
Correction of the depth for the earth pressure distribution for block loads.
Design of reinforced concrete acc. to Indian Standard IS 456 available.

July 07 2.61 As for the design of the footing the soil pressures from the earth pressure for wall design are
used, these soil pressures are printed separately.
In the design of the wall the minimum reinforcement is printed.
In the setting of the analysis standard there is a separate setting for bearing capacity analysis
for free standard definitions. Acc. to OENORM B 4435-2 e.g. we have to use load safety
factors of 1.0 for the bearing capacity analysis.

June 07 2.60 If the passive earth pressure is not switched off completely under Project – Parameters, we
may define for every construction stage if it should be applied completely, with a defined
percentage or reduced automatically to a value for having sliding and bearing capacity
check fulfilled (if there is enough passive earth pressure).
For the shear design the designations acc. to DIN 1045-1 are used (V instead of Q) and the
inclination of the struts and the values VRd,ct and VRd,max are printed (other designations for
SIA, ÖNORM and British Standard).

May 07 2.511 Analysis acc. to SIA: earth pressure coefficient for cohesion passive Kpch = sqrt(Kph) and
multiplying with 2*c

Apr. 07 2.59 New icon Print preview, function tile horizontal orders the windows horizontally instead of
vertically.

Feb. 07 2.59 For analysis acc. to SIA the base pressures and the resultant at the base are printed as design
values like the design values of earth pressures and section forces.

Feb. 07 2.58 For sliding analysis correct use of the safety for the full passive (not for the mobilized)
passive earth pressure. For SIA: use of the base friction angle as a design value with the
safety factor for tan(ϕ).

Nov. 06 2.54 Dimensioning acc. to DIN 1045-1: Use of the secant module Ecm for the calculation of
displacements acc. to DIN 1045-1 correction 2.
Dimensioning acc. to ÖNORM B 4700: support of the new concrete grades Cxx/xx.

Nov. 06 2.52 Use of the cantilever wall as a plate with the defined length for the shear dimensioning acc.
to DIN 1045-1: no minimum reinforcement resp. interpolation foll. 13.3.3 (2). Use of the
reinforcement on the respective tension side for the reinforcemment grade in vRd,ct.

Oct. 06 2.51 For analysis acc. to SIA unified calculation of the parameters acc. to the book of Lang,
Huder, Amann: Bodenmechanik und Grundbau.

Oct. 06 2.50 If a masonry is beginning above the foundation, the pod below is used as a larger wall
thickness for the dimensioning.

Sep. 06 2.49 Correction of the use of bending reinforcement for calculating the shear dimensioning.
Under „Material“ the used tear reinforcement for wall, foundation and spurs may be
predefined, which is used for the calculation of the shear reinforcement.

July 06 2.48 Improved calculation of the wall’s volume and weight, if there are bending points within the
wall.
June 06 2.47 The wall inclination alpha is used for the cohesion coefficients Kach and Kpch.

May 06 2.46 More exact calculation of the intersection between the subst. wall under θ’ with the wall for
inclined back of wall.

May 06 2.45 Support of the new DIN 4017:2006 for the bearing capacity analysis. For analysis acc. to
DIN 1054:2005 we use the formulae for the coefficients acc. to DIN 4017:2006.

Mar. 06 2.43 The water pressure on the active and passive side has to be used with the same safety factor
when using partial safety factors. For a negative resultant the safety factor for favourable
loads is used (new standard value in the standards selection).

Mar. 06 2.42 Correction for special cases of vertical load from earth pressure on the inclined subst. wall
for walls with footing spur on the earth side.

Feb. 06 2.41 For the optimization of the foundation width we need only to compare the base normal
pressure σR with perm. σ as a criterion, not the pressures at the edge.

Dec. 05 2.40 New function Export – RTF for the transfer of the results to Microsoft Word. With a
template file, e.g. Standard Vorlage.rtf, the layout of the output, especially company name
and logo, may be changed to company-specific settings.

Sep. 05 2.30 Undo and Redo function is available. Any number of steps can be reversed and repeated.

July 05 2.24 Acc. to DIN 1054 only the constant value of the normal base pressure must be checked
against the perm. soil pressure (not max. sigma).

July 05 2.23 Loads above the foundation spur at the earth side are used as load on the foundation also for
the stability analysis.

Apr. 05 2.20 Change of the printing process: for printing to PDF format all output is written to one file
(exception: graphics with different sheet formats).
We append an identifying letter to the file name (the last letter of the program’s file
extension, here _M) to distinguish PDF output of different programs with the same project
name.
French program version available (see Settings - Configuration – Other).

Dec. 04 2.10 The address file DCPROG.DYX is not needed any more to start the programs. If it is not
present, the desired address lines are entered at the first program start.
The DXF option is now included in every program as a standard.

Oct. 04 2.00 Program available in English language.

Analysis including bearing capacity and slope stability, with partial safety factors acc. to
DIN 1054:2003, SIA 267, dimensioning acc. to DIN 1045-1, SIA 262, ÖNORM B 4700,
British Standard BS 8110.
Optimization of the foundation width, alternatively at the front or back side available.

May 04 1.00 Program DC-Cantilever for the analysis of cantilever walls available.