The official tool homepage for the PileGroupTool is here The SimCenter Pile-Group Tool provides a dynamic interface to study the behavior of a pile or pile-group in layered soil. It allows the user to interactively (and nearly instantly) observe the system's response to changes of the following parameters: soil structure (up to 3 layers of variable thickness) and soil properties position of the ground water table pile stiffness, embedment length, connection type to the pile cap number of piles in the group (one to three piles) the applied horizontal force at the pile cap (push-over analysis) Presented results include: lateral displacement of all piles moment and shear diagrams for each vertical soil stresses ultimate strength and stiffness parameters for the employed p-y springs New in this release: Fixes a scaling bug where parameters were inaccessible on smaller displays Fixes an update bug when forces or applied displacements were changed using the up/down arrows in DoubleSpinBoxes Adds axis labels and units to the result plots Removes the "hints" section to better work on smaller displays adds a Quick Tips section and pop-up to the Help menu. This replaces and expands the removed hints section minor updates to the UI some minor performance updates internally.

This work is funded by the National Science Foundation under grant CMMI 1612843