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a designer to do a complete design of a gravity retaining wall or a geogrid
reinforced retaining wall, they will spend great deal of time doing repetitive
calculations. Once the design is determined, they must generate several detailed
construction documents to ensure what they have designed is accurately
communicated to the persons building the wall.
RisiWall®
eliminates most of the tedious calculation and documentation necessary in the
design process.
The program can operate as an
analysis tool and check a design created by the user, or it can function as a
design tool and determine the reinforcement necessary to create a stable wall.
This obviously makes the program and the design of the wall an interactive
process.
The program guides the user through
the design in an orderly step by step manner. The designer is required to make
decisions about their design throughout the entire process. This allows the user
to review the profile design, panel layout, cross section parameters, geogrid
placement (if required) and the calculated factors of safety. The designer
participates in the design of every panel, but the program will do all the
time-consuming calculations. When a wall designs fails to meet the required
standards, the program provides hints and several options which can bring the
wall up to the required standards.
When the program is used as an
analysis tool it will identify user designs that will not meet the required
standards and may possibly not even be stable. At least the program will save
you time and money before you start to build.
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