DEEP is a user friendly robust software program that evaluates and aids the design of deep excavations. The design of deep excavations can be a very complicated matter. The designer has to content with many unknowns and factors that influence the behavior of the excavation. Typically, there are two systems in excavations that must be designed: A) the Earth Retention System that contains the earth i.e. the support wall (sheet pile, diaphragm wall, etc.), and b) the Support System (i.e. the internal or external bracing such as rakers, struts, or tiebacks) that supports the earth retention system.

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Performing detailed calculations for both systems can be a very time consuming process, especially when parameters have to be changed. In addition, many current software programs do not offer an integrated platform of structural and geotechnical analyses required to design deep excavations. As a result, the designer is forced to use numerous software programs to analyze the excavation and the structural system separately. With the exception of finite element analyses, there are very few theoretical solutions for calculating lateral soil pressures from complex surface profiles. Furthermore, the designer has to save under different filenames different stages for the same excavation. As a result, the whole process can become unnecessarily complicated and time consuming. DEEP addresses most of these issues and provides an integrated structural and geotechnical platform for designing deep excavations.

The current version of DEEP can offer both traditional methods of analyses and discrete soil spring solutions. While it is realized that traditional methods of analysis have obvious limitations in predicting real behavior accurately, they are important for framing the problem and providing a back-check for more rigorous finite element methods. Soil spring solutions can give a better approximation to real wall behavior. The beauty of DEEP is that it can perform both traditional and spring analyses so efficiently that it leaves the designer with ample time to perform more time consuming finite element analyses. Future versions of DEEP will include finite element. The spring analysis module has been developed by CeAs, Italy and has been successfully used for more than 20 years with more than 700 users in Italy

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SPRING ANALYSIS MAY REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL PURCHASE OF THE SRING ANALYSIS MODULE.

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1. You must first install the .NET 2 redistributable package available here or from microsoft at: www.msdn.com/downloads

DEEP 2008 Contractor------------For evaluation of deep excavations. DEEP is a graphical program. So feel free to experiment with right & left clicking on various items. You may also download DEEP2008_Setup.Exe or DEEP2008_Setup.Zip (33 mb) --- For 3DEEP you must install DirectX9 by Microsoft Corp. Click here to download.

3DEEP-- Virtual Reality Viewer - Click here to download the full version (33 mb) with DEEP 2008, or for a Winrar File click here (5mb). -- For 3DEEP you must install DirectX9 by Microsoft Corp. Click here to download.

DEEP 2007 Contractor -----------------For evaluation of deep excavations. DEEP is a graphical program. So feel free to experiment with right & left clicking on various items. You may also download DEEP2007_DecUpdate.Exe or DEEP2007_DecUpdate.Zip

Trench-2.0 for evaluating the 2D and 3D stability of bentonite slurry filled trenches and panels. Now with metric units available.

Steel-Beam 1.0 for steel beams and columns under combined axial and flexural loads.

Steel-Connect 1.0 for steel connections