Select the domain to be replicated. Do a ???Move??? operation with the copy option enabled to produce an identical copy of the domain. Use the same coordinate for both the first and copy point to place the copy of the domain at the same location. Select the copy and exclude it from the current view of the insitu stage. Reassign the copy with the appropriate material properties. Done.

No, the software only accommodate seconds as time input. We may consider that in future release.

GeoFEA does not have interface elements for both 2D and 3D versions as we understand the inherent problem with interface elements. We also noted the difficulty involved when deriving the correct parameters when we uses a more complex formulation for an advanced interface elements. In view of the above, we had been recommending alternative to the use of interface elements. The interface elements are usually used to simulate the reduced friction between the wall or pile elements and the soil. Therefore, we recommend applying a friction factor ranging between 1/3 and 2/3 of the soil friction angle as the friction angle for the set of relatively thin soil elements adjoining the structural elements. This will mimic the soil-structure interface behaviour. Typical values of this friction factor can be found in NAVFAC standards. Other parameters will follows that of the soil elements adjacent to them. The advantage to this is the zero thickness of the interface element causing numerical instability can be avoided. The derivation of the interface properties is much easier and these values can be referenced for different frictional behaviour between two materials according to NAVFAC standards. The disadvantage is the use of more elements and degree-of-freedoms in the computation. There is an inherent difficulty in specifying tension cut-off value for soil. .

Using Absolute Pore-pressure for the exposed surface is not appropriate in an excavation analysis. Total Head pore pressure fixity should be used instead. The reason being that we are unable to know how much the absolute pore pressure change will be at each excavation step prior to each step.

We do not output Absolute Pore-pressure. What most users will be concern with either the total pressure or if there is still excess pore pressure to be dissipated.

Yes. The Deformed Shape option can be found in the Results tab under Post-Process: Displacements > Displacement norm. It will appear as a Deform shape toolbox.

Yes, you will have to use the scroll button as shown below each step???s name.

It is not possible to overlay the deformed mesh over the original undeformed mesh currently. To show deformation from the original mesh, we can use the vector plot.

We do not provide the facility to show the element or node number. All the elements and nodes will undergo an optimising procedure thus the ordering will seem haphazard thus it may not be useful for the user to search for one element among the rest. We provide the facility to identify the element with element number.

The software is able to output readable files for line plots.

We currently have no plans for a comprehensive operating manual. We will provide instructions through video demonstrations which we think is more effective than printed words.