Geocentrix Repute - Intelligent pile design and analysis

Repute vs PC-PGROUP

Feature	Program
Feature	PC-PGROUP	Repute (Professional)
Latest version (date)	3.2 (2000)	2.0 (2009)
Developed by	TRL/Mott MacDonald	Geocentrix
Engineering features
Method of analysis	Boundary Element Method	Boundary Element Method
Group effects solution	Continuum-based	Continuum-based
Maximum no of piles (x elements) analysed	200 (x 11)	300 (x 50)
Multi-layered soil profile/Gibson soil	2-only /	/
3-dimensional loading/including torque		/
Non-linear soil model		hyperbolic
Allows general (asymmetric) pile layout
Piles with different lengths/moduli in group	/	/
Independent axial and lateral pile moduli
Flexible pile cap/effective pile cap contact*	/	/
Pile head pinned/rigidly connected to cap	/	/
Rigid layer below pile toe
Usability features
Operating system	DOS-shell	Windows XP/Vista/7
User interface	Menu-driven	Fully graphical, including drag-drop and in-place editing
Validation of data on input/calculation	/	/
Graphical display of results
Fully customizable reports
*Both programs provide rigid pile cap/non-effective pile cap contact