Tutorial 6 considers a more complicated project: that of an asymmetric pile group under general 3-dimensional loading. This tutorial shows you how to:
Modify an existing project
Change the location of individual piles within a pile group
Specify 3D loading
The worked example involves the analysis of a group of 15 piles installed in stiff clay overlying dense sand.
The ground conditions at the site are identical to those in Tutorial 5.
The piles will be installed on an irregular grid, shown below. The spacing between adjacent rows is 3m in the X-direction and 1.5m in the Y.
Each pile is 20m long, 1m in diameter, and has a Young's modulus of 30 GPa (both axially and laterally).
You are interested in the displacements and rotation of the pile cap under a combined vertical load of 50MN, horizontal loads of 10MN (in the X-direction) and 7MN (in the Y-direction), and moments of 5MNm (in the XZ-plane) and 3MNm (in the YZ-plane). The vertical load will be applied on the pile cap at the location of Pile 9.
This tutorial is written for users of the Professional, Enterprise, and Trial Editions of Repute 2 only. Users of the Standard Edition should look at Tutorials 1-3.
In Step 1, you will open and modify an existing project
In Step 2, you will delete the old pile group and then specify a new group
In Step 3, you will move the piles to their final (asymmetric) positions.
In Step 4, you will modify the actions on the pile group.
In Step 5, you will perform the calculations and review the results.
In Step 6, you will close and (optionally) save the project.
If Repute is not already running, double-click on the Repute icon on Windows’ Desktop to start the program. Once the splash screen has disappeared, Repute displays its Welcome page.
If you have an existing project open, click Close on the program’s Application menu. (You will be prompted to save your work if you have not already done so.)
Now you are ready to start the tutorial.
Step 1 - open and modify an existing project