Pile catalogue

Tekla Structural Designer
2023
Tekla Structural Designer

Pile catalogue

The Pile Catalogue is used to add or edit pile dimensions and capacities.

To open the dialog:

  1. Click the Foundations tab.
  2. Click Pile Catalogue.

    The Pile Catalogue dialog is displayed.

1. Pile data

If working to Eurocodes the following data is required.

Title Description

Name

Pile name

Rc,d,1

Axial compressive resistance GEO

Rt,d,1

Axial tensile resistance GEO

Rc,d,2

Axial compressive resistance STR

Rt,d,2

Axial tensile resistance STR

HR,1

Lateral resistance GEO

HR,2

Lateral resistance STR
Installation type
  • Driven
  • Bored
  • CFA
Shape
  • Circular
  • Square
Dimension Diameter, or length of side
Used Automatically checked when the pile has been assigned in the model

If working to other regional codes the following data is required.

Title Description

Name

Pile name

Rc

Axial compressive resistance

Rt

Axial tensile resistance

HR

Lateral resistance
Installation type
  • Driven
  • Bored
  • CFA
Shape
  • Circular
  • Square
Dimension Diameter, or length of side
Used Automatically checked when the pile has been assigned in the model

2. Add/Edit

Opens the below dialog for adding/editing piles.

Data

Name

Pile name
Installation type
  • Driven
  • Bored
  • CFA
Shape
  • Circular
  • Square
Dimension Diameter, or length of side
Length Length of pile
Embedment Length of embedment
Load transfer type
  • End-bearing
  • Friction
Material
Note: Material information defined here has no design significance. It is assigned solely to allow embodied carbon to be calculated and reported for the 'Pile' construction type.
Material type
  • Steel
  • Concrete
  • Timber
  • General
  • Cold Formed
  • Cold Rolled
Material grade Grade of selected material.
Volume adjustment

There are many and varied piling systems. Although a theoretical diameter and length are input, in practice these can be minimums or approximations.

A volume adjustment can therefore be applied to allow different systems to be catered for.

Example - an in-situ under-reamed piling system might be given an adjustment >> 100%

Reinforcement grade For concrete, the reinforcement grade is selected by clicking […]
Reinforcement Volume % If you set a percentage > 0% the calculated mass of reinforcement will be able to be used when calculating reinforcement ECFs.

See the below note for further details.

Reinforcement Mass Calculated using the above volume %.
Note: Reported carbon for cast-in-place concrete piles
There are two options available:
  • Option 1 - Simplest

    • Treat in the same was as precast - apply a single factor that allows for both concrete and rebar.
    • Can use the existing “precast” ECF, or more likely create one specifically for piles.
  • Option 2 - Treat concrete and rebar separately:

    • Edit appropriate ECFs in the concrete category to activate the Pile variant in the Entity filter.
    • In the Pile Catalogue set a reinforcement % for each pile. The resulting reinforcement mass will then be used to calculate the embodied carbon mass of the pile reinforcement. This can then be picked up by appropriate reinforcement ECFs in the reinforcement category.
Pile Capacity
Axial compressive resistance Axial compressive resistance
Axial tensile resistance Axial tensile resistance
Lateral resistance Lateral resistance
Vertical
Linearity
  • Spring linear
  • Spring non-linear
Vertical spring stiffness Linear springs only.
Vertical compression spring stiffness Non-linear springs only.
Vertical compression limit Non-linear springs only.

The spring compression capacity.

Vertical tension spring stiffness Non-linear springs only.
Vertical tension limit Non-linear springs only.

The spring tension capacity.

Horizontal
Horizontal restraint
  • Fixed
  • Spring linear
Horizontal spring stiffness Linear springs only.

3. Delete

Deletes the selected pile data.

4. OK/Cancel

Click OK to save, or Cancel to close without saving.

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