Provides analysis of cantilever timber pole and reinforced concrete retaining walls according to SESOC’s two Simplified Structural Design Guides:
- Timber Pole Retaining Walls
- Concrete Cantilever Retaining Walls (not yet included)
V1.1 Date: 5/7/2025
- Enable timber pole design check, based on NZS 1720 instead of NZS 3603
- Update default design factors – following discussions between SESOC and NZGS:
- αD has been changed from 1.2 to 1.0
- αL has been changed from 1.5 to 1.0
- αq has been changed from 1.3 to 1.5
- Separate display of design factors between timber pole and concrete retaining walls
- If c’ = 0 and phi’ <> 0, then always treat founding soil as cohesionless for static loading
- Allow creation of PDF files from auto mode
- Update field range limits
- Improve handling when RetWall is unable to find a solution to LeMin
- Update direction of passive pressure arrows in graphics
- Various output formatting improvements
V1.0.2 Date: 24/2/2025
- Improve convergence when iteratively solving moment and force simultaneous equations
- New Actions tab showing moments and shears down pole
- New option to save output as a text file, able to be loaded into Excel
V1.0.1 Date: 13/1/2025
- Fix saving of backfill soil properties for some data files
V1.0 Date: 18/12/2024
- Initial upload
- Analysis of concrete retaining walls not yet included
