BearFoot calculates the bearing capacity in four ways and the settlement in two ways of shallow foundations.

Prepared in accordance with Eurocode, Terzaghi, Meyerhof, Hansen, Vesic, Shmertmen, FHWA, Navfac, Bowles, Das, Peck, Thomlinson. The program is well documented, including a user's and a technical manuals.

New Features

The latest version, 3.0, adds the following features:

 

1.    Help screens loaded with equations to estimate the engineering design parameters.

 

2.    Ability to compute the allowable bearing capacity based on SPT or CPT data

 

3.    Calculate the effective soil parameters based on either the shear wedge depth or zone of influence

 

4.    Additional utility to calculate the settlement vs. applied bearing pressure for a specific footing size and based on the two settlement method.

Features

• Footing subjected to concentric or eccentric loads, including moments in either direction.
   
• Inclined footings, and footings subjected to inclined loads in either direction.
   
• Footings on a sloped ground.
   
• Multiple layers of soil with or without water table.
   
• Provides an estimate of the Modulus of Subgrade Reaction (Ks).
   
• Calculates Bearing capacity according to four different methods.
   
• Estimates the short term settlement in accordance to two different methods.
   
• Estimates the rotation of the base based on either a Rigid or a Flexible Plate model.
   
• Calculates the induced stresses under the footing.
   
• The simple input / output screen allows for a concise yet comprehensive report with a simple click of the mouse.
   
• Online help plus detailed User’s and Technical manuals.