Twelve worked examples, each a realistic pile from the first input to the report. Every example uses different features, so watch them in order or pick the one closest to your project.
Video · Tutorial 1
A complete first analysis: a 610 mm steel pipe pile in soft clay over sand over stiff clay, built from scratch, run, checked and reported.
Program Options · Steel pipe section · Soft clay, sand and stiff clay p-y models · Free and fixed head · Report
Watch on YouTube · 9:53
Video · Tutorial 2
A 1.0 m reinforced concrete bored pile whose bending stiffness drops as the section cracks, and what that does to the deflection.
Round concrete shaft · Moment-curvature · Mobilized EI · Report Builder
Watch on YouTube · 8:08
Video · Tutorial 3
A jetty pile standing out of the water in soft marine clay: current load along the free length, cyclic loading, P-Delta and a buckling check.
Casing over steel pipe · Head rotational spring · Distributed load · Cyclic loading · Buckling
Watch on YouTube · 9:38
Video · Tutorial 4
Hollow prestressed spun piles under a building: the pile-head stiffness to use as springs in the structural model.
Spun pile section · Pile cap depth · Pile-head stiffness K22, K23, K33 · Export to Excel
Watch on YouTube · 8:28
Video · Tutorial 5
Precast square piles by a river bank where the sand liquefies and the ground itself moves against the pile.
Liquefied sand models · Ground slope · Soil movement · 3D view
Watch on YouTube · 8:11
Video · Tutorial 6
Steel H piles leaning one in six in a pier group, in weathered residual soil, on the strong and the weak axis.
Steel H section · Residual soil · Pile batter and p-y multipliers · Batch run
Watch on YouTube · 6:10
Video · Tutorial 7
A bored pile socketed into rock for a bridge pier, hit by a ship partway down, and how short the pile can be.
Casing and core · Weak and massive rock · Tip and side resistance · Variable pile length
Watch on YouTube · 12:10
Video · Tutorial 8
Load and resistance factor design of a 24 x 24 in precast concrete pile: 32 load combinations, interaction diagram and capacity check.
US customary units · LRFD combinations · Interaction diagram · Moment and shear check
Watch on YouTube · 9:47
Video · Tutorial 9
Match the model to a full-scale lateral load test on a steel pipe pile, tune the soil from the command line, then push the pile to a plastic hinge.
User-input p-y curves · Prescribed deflections · Load test data · Command line · Pushover
Watch on YouTube · 10:35
Video · Tutorial 10
A 1.2 m driven pipe pile under an offshore jacket in soft clay, with the ISO 19901-4 clay model and static and cyclic storm loading.
ISO clay model · Enhanced sand · Static vs cyclic
Watch on YouTube · 7:42
Video · Tutorial 11
Octagonal prestressed piles driven through carbonate sand into weak carbonate rock and strong rock, with the sand from a cone test.
Octagonal prestressed section · Calcareous sand from CPT · Calcareous rock · Strong rock
Watch on YouTube · 6:52
Video · Tutorial 12
A row of steel box piles holding a creeping road cut: the shear and moment that each trial slip depth puts through the pile.
Steel box section · Different slope on each side · Shear demand · Shear deformation
Watch on YouTube · 8:04
All twelve are in the Solpile Tutorials playlist on YouTube, with chapters and English subtitles. New to Solpile? Start with the getting-started guide and the user manual.
