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Piledesigner

Pile design software that runs in the browser. It calculates to EA-Pfähle and DIN 1054 and produces documentation as a PDF, ready for review.

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A building model on its pile foundation, beside a soil profile with the resistance diagram and the table of pile resistances over depth

Design a group, and every pile is built as strong as the one carrying the most.

Conventional software designs to the governing load of a whole group. It holds, and it costs: every pile with less to carry goes into the ground with surplus concrete, steel, drilling metres and CO₂.

Piledesigner calculates each pile on its own vertical and horizontal loads, automatically, across several thousand piles in a project. The method and the calculation core come from the engineering practice of Dr.-Ing. Ingo Hylla, a foundation engineer working in specialist foundation design.

  • Designed per pile rather than per group
  • Vertical and horizontal forces in one calculation
  • Entirely in the browser, nothing to install

What the software calculates

Load cases
Several load cases held and calculated at once.
Soil profiles
Layers, groundwater level and friction angle per project, in the browser.
Capacity
External and internal capacity under every relevant load, with skin friction, base resistance and settlement. The pile length is optimised along the way.
Reinforcement
The longitudinal and shear reinforcement each pile needs, from the load that pile actually carries.

From the soil profile to the verification

  1. Set the calculation up

    Choose the standard, EA-Pfähle or DIN 1054, and fix the partial safety factors.

  2. Enter the soil profiles

    Layers, groundwater level and friction angle.

  3. Determine the external capacity

    Place piles under the load points and choose type, spacing and diameter. Skin friction, base resistance and settlement are calculated for you.

  4. Check the internal capacity

    Optional, with the reinforcement each pile needs.

Calculated for these projects

Nuremberg Airport

A new multi storey car park, built by JACBO Pfahlgründungen.

565 bored piles, Ø 60 cm, up to 10 m long. Vertical load up to 2,5 MN per column, 1,7 MN on average. About five weeks on site, up to 25 piles per day per rig.

MOJO solar project

Flevoland, the Netherlands, 2021, built by Aarsleff Grundbau.

Around 2.800 precast piles, 45 × 45 cm, 45 × 67 cm at the head, 5 m long. The piles are foundation and mounting base at once, for a photovoltaic carport system.

Koelnmesse, Hall 1plus

Cologne, 2018 to 2019. Client Kölnmesse GmbH, built by JACBO Pfahlgründungen.

400 bored piles, 241 at Ø 70 cm and 159 at Ø 80 cm, down to 17,5 m. Vertical load 2,7 MN on average, 3,6 MN at most.

Thirty days free, no credit card.

Piledesigner runs in the browser, with nothing to install. Prices, references and registration are on piledesigner.io.

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