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Modeling Tutorial

1) Paratie Plus is a 2D nonlinear wall analysis program that can model double tieback supported walls in complex soil profiles. 2) It uses an interactive graphic interface to simplify model input and follows a standard process to build models layer-by-layer, including material selection, geometry definition, excavation stages, support application, and seismic loading. 3) The program outputs include summary tables, diagrams of wall behavior and forces, hydraulic analysis results, and customizable reports that can be generated for each analysis.

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Modeling Tutorial

1) Paratie Plus is a 2D nonlinear wall analysis program that can model double tieback supported walls in complex soil profiles. 2) It uses an interactive graphic interface to simplify model input and follows a standard process to build models layer-by-layer, including material selection, geometry definition, excavation stages, support application, and seismic loading. 3) The program outputs include summary tables, diagrams of wall behavior and forces, hydraulic analysis results, and customizable reports that can be generated for each analysis.

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Developed by Ce.A.S. srl, Italy and Deep Excavation LLC, U.S.A.

PARATIE PLUS MODELING HANDBOOK

Paratie Plus is a wall non linear 2D analysis and check (as to DM08, Eurocode, ACI and AISC)
program.

It is possible to analyze double tieback supported walls, embedded in complex stratigraphies.

The non inear analysis consists in considering the wall as a beam on elastoplatic foundation. A
conventional limit equilibrium analysis can be performed too.

Thanks to the interactive graphic interface, the input step is extremely simple.

The menu, similar to the new Office one, is structured so as to follow the necessary stages to make
up the model, making the designer job easier.

The program counts in a wide database of wall, load and support types and materials (soils and
structural materials).

It is possible to run, both for the wall and for any other structural element, SLS and SLU checks.
To that end the program genrates automatically every design approach whith the prescribed
safety factors.

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HOW TO CREATE A MODEL USING PLUS 2011

It’s very important to follow accurately the steps indespensable to built the real construction,
because it’s not possible to superimpose effects using non-linear analysis.
It’s recommendable, then, to divide the model construction in steps.

The indespensable steps to make up a typical model are listed:

STAGE 0

1. Material choice
• Soils characterization and stratigraphy definition.
• Construction of the concrete database to be used to characterize the wall section
(diaphragm, concrete pails, steel pails filled with concrete), slub section, tiebacks
bonded zone.
• Construction of the steel database to be used to characterize the wall section (sheet
pails walls and tangent piles walls), diaphagms reincorcement, struts, rakers, tiebacks
strands or bars.
2. Surface contour definition: horizontal, sloped and bench surface.
3. Surface loads application: strip or uniform surcharge, line loads, and 3D loads; wall loads
application: strip surcharges, concentrated force or moment, imposed displacements.
4. Wall type definition: diaphragm, tangent piles walls ( also using an offset between piles and
the wall axis), sheet piles walls.

STAGE 1

1. Excavation
2. Possible subsidence

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STAGE 2

1. Tieback, strut or slab application. It is recommendable to create a specific step in which the
only one alteration is the application of supports.
2. Support features definition.

STAGE 3

1. Possible further excavation.


2. Possible subsidence

STAGE 4

1. Possible application of seismic action. The seismic load can be added at any time, not only
at the end. As for supports application, the user should create a specific stage in which the
only one alteration is the application of the seismic load.
2. Check code choice. It’s possible to choose among DM08 (Italian code), Eurocode and U.S.A.
Code.
3. Automatic design approaches generation. It’s possible to generate one or more the one
design approaches set by the implemented codes.
4. Calculation and check of one or more than one Design Section.

Results

1. Chief results summarizing table.


2. Visualizable diagrams: wall internal actions and related resistant actions, deflection,
settlements, ground pressures, water pressures, hydraulic gradient seismic overpressure.
3. Excel-type diagrams: it’s possible to visualize in detail any quantity described before in a
better layout, similar to Excell interface.
4. Hydraulic analysis: water pressures, flow-net, hydraulic load, hydraulic heave safety factor.
5. Detailed tables: report numerical results in terms of internal actions, resistant actions and
ground pressures uninterrupredly along the wall length.

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Report

It’s possible to make up with a simple “drag&drop” one or more than one report prototypes that
can be called back any time the user wants to draw up the calculation report. This can be
completely customized both as to figures and to text.

SOIL EDIT WINDOW

The indespensable parameters to correctly characterize sands and clays are listed:

Sands

• PHI’ = friction angle used to calculate K0, Ka and Kp.


• PHIpeack e PHIcv are optional. Anyway, it must be PHIpeack > PHIcv.
• Gammat = total soil gravity. The soaked soil gravity is automatically calculated.
• Gammadry = dry soil gravity.
• Ka e Kp = the default value are calculated using the Rankine theory (no wall-ground
friction). To bargain for a possible presence of friction between ground and wall the user
can use the available correlations or insert an angle below the Analysis menu.
• Evc = virgin compression elastic modulus.
• Eur = reload elastic modulus. Eur > Evc.

Clays

1. FULL CLAY METHOD (ESP – effective stress path)

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• PHIcv = friction angle. It’s NECESSARY to specify this value, because it is used to
make up the elastic field (cfr the theory manual about non-linear analysis).
• PHIpeack = fictitious parameter that represents the slope of the line that linearizes
the failure domain, in the origin neighbouthood, when over consolidation clays are used.
Its meaning is completely different talking about sands or clays. When φpeack < φcv,
cohesion springs up.
• Ka,peack > Ka,cv.
• Kp,peack < Kp,cv.
• Gammat = total soil gravity. The soaked soil gravity is automatically calculated.
• Gammadry = dry soil gravity.
• Evc = virgin compression elastic modulus.
• Eur = reload elastic modulus. Eur > Evc.
• Default drained-undrained behaviour (can be modified during the following stages)
for clays.
• Su = undrained cohesion. It’s not compulsory to specify it, it can be used only as a
boundary for failure domain (undrained behaviour with redundant control – cfr theory
manual about non-linear analysis).

2. SIMPLIFIED METHOD (TSP – Total stress path)

• Gammat = total soil gravity. The soaked soil gravity is automatically calculated.
• Gammadry = dry soil gravity.
• Eu = undrained elastic modulus
• Su = undrained cohesion

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