Excavation shoring is a system that braces an excavation and retains earth, water, and adjacent structures. Excavation shoring design can be complicated. The excavation shoring designer has to account for many unknowns and factors that influence the behavior of the excavation shoring.
Typically, there are two excavation shoring systems that must be designed: A) the Earth Retention System that contains the earth i.e. the support wall (sheet pile, diaphragm wall, etc.), and b) the Support System (i.e. the internal or external bracing such as rakers, struts, or tiebacks) that supports the earth retention system. Performing detailed calculations for both excavation shoring systems can be a very time consuming process, especially when parameters have to be changed. In addition, many current software programs do not offer an integrated platform of structural and geotechnical analyses required to design shoring excavations.
As a result, the designer is forced to use numerous software programs to analyze the excavation and the structural system seperately. With the exception of finite element analyses, there are very few theoretical solutions for calculating lateral soil pressures from complex surface profiles. Furthermore, the designer has to save under different filenames different stages for the same excavation. As a result, the whole process can become unescessarily complicated and time consuming. DeepXcav addresses most of these issues and provides an integrated structural and geotechnical platform for designing deep excavations.
Deepwell Corporation was incorporated in 1972 after acquiring all Plants, Equipment and stores of the U.S. Firm M/s Harold T.Smith which winded up its drilling business in Pakistan. Since its inception Deepwell has been continuously updating and replenishing its equipment and services to meet the modern demands of the industry through Research and Development.
