Settings

The "Settings" frame contains basic settings to assess the footings. The program offers pre-setting for different countries (Czech Republic, Germany, France...) and "Standard" recommended by the authors of the program for countries not included in the list. While changing settings in the combo list the values of coefficients of reduction of soil parameters in corresponding windows are changed.

An arbitrary analysis setting is available with the option "User-defined". Selecting the option "Safety factor" allows the user to specify in input fields own values of the factor of safety for vertical and horizontal bearing capacity. Selecting the option "Limit states" allows for specifying individual values of the coefficients of reduction of soil parameters and coefficients for computing the self weight of both foundation and overburden. The frame further serves for inputting the design coefficients to determine the vertical bearing capacity and the horizontal bearing capacity of a foundation, respectively.

Frame "Settings" - safety factor

Frame "Settings" - limit states