Pavement Design

We offer three state-of-the-art packages:

CIRCLY is a comprehensive program for analysis and design of pavements. The program can calculate stresses, strains and displacements induced by a variety of surface loads on layered soil systems. CIRCLY is widely used in Australia and overseas and is an integral part of the Austroads Pavement Design Guide. 

APSDS (Airport Pavement Structural Design System) is a special version for airport pavements.

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HIPAVE (Heavy Industrial PAVEment design) is for the mechanistic analysis and design of flexible pavements subjected to the extremely heavy wheel loads associated with freight handling vehicles in industrial facilities, in particular, intermodal container terminals. It is designed to conveniently model each combination of vehicle model and container load and to combine the damage using the Cumulative Damage Factor concept.

Click here for a comparison of the features of the three packages.

General Stress Analysis

SIGMA/W is a finite element package for analysing two-dimensional geotechnical stress and deformation problems. Typical applications include settlement of footings, braced and anchored foundations and consolidation or heave resulting from pore-water pressure changes.

MAP3D is a state of the art three-dimensional boundary element stress analysis package for design and analysis of surface and underground soil and rock mechanics problems arising in civil and mining engineering. MAP3D features state of the art user-friendly graphical pre- and post-processors for fast problem set-up and result presentation.

Underground Coal Mining

The MINLAY system is a state of the art boundary element stress analysis package for design of underground coal mines. MINLAY is a major breakthrough, giving a three-dimensional analysis capability to any mining engineer with a PC. MINLAY features user-friendly graphical pre- and post-processors for fast problem set-up and result presentation.

Slope Stability

SLOPE/W solves a range of soil and rock slope stability problems. A wide range of analysis methods can be used including Bishop, Morgenstern-Price, Janbu, Fellenius and Corp of Engineers. SLOPE/W runs under Microsoft Windows and graphical results can be output on popular printers and plotters.

Groundwater Flow

SEEP/W is a finite element package that models groundwater seepage including steady state and transient saturated and unsaturated flow. Graphical results can be output on popular printers and plotters.

CTRAN/W is a finite element package for modelling contaminant transport through soil and rock. It can analyse processes involving diffusion, dispersion, adsorption and radioactive decay.

Geothermal Analysis

TEMP/W is a finite element package for analysing geothermal problems. Problems that can be solved range from simple steady-state thermal conduction problems through to sophisticated transient freeze-thaw problems.