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Prowd
Program of Retaining Wall Design

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What is Prowd?

Prowd provides an innovative method for rapidly calculating the bending moments and deflections of propped and cantilever retaining walls in clay soils. Soil strains are calculated using analytically and experimentally derived mechanisms and are linked to earth pressures utilising mobilisable strength design through the constitutive law proposed by Vardanega and Bolton (2011). The performance of this software in calculating equilibrium wall loadings during sequential excavation of propped excavations has been demonstrated by Deng et al. (2021).


This software is a work in progress and we would be grateful for any feedback on improvements that would make it more powerful or usable in Engineering Practice.

PRODUCT
ABOUT

Developer Team

FEATURED
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Dr. Chuhan Deng

University of Cambridge

Research Associate of

Geotechnical Engineering
Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge
Cambridge
CB3 0EF
United Kingdom

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Dr. Qingjie Zhang

University of Luxembourg

Design Engineer,

Ney and Partners LUX,

Luxembourg

External Researcher,

Department of Engineering,

University of Luxembourg. 

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Prof. Stuart K. Haigh

University of Cambridge

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering
Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge
Cambridge
CB3 0EF
United Kingdom

CONTACT

STAY IN TOUCH

Schofield Centre, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EF, UK

Publications

Deng, C. and Haigh, S. K. (2022). Sand deformation mechanisms mobilised with active retaining wall movement. Géotechnique 72, No. 3, 260-273, https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.20.p.041.

Deng, C. and  Haigh, S. K. (2022). Sand deformation mechanisms and earth pressures mobilised with passive rigid retaining wall movements. Géotechnique, https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.21.00058.

Deng, C., Haigh, S. K., Ma, X. and Xu, J. (2021). A design method for flexible retaining walls in clay. Géotechnique 71, No. 2, 178-187, https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.19.P.095.

Deng, C. and Haigh, S. K. (2021). Earth pressures mobilised in dry sand with active rigid retaining wall movement. Géotechnique Letters 11, No. 3, 202-208, https://doi.org/10.1680/jgele.21.00046.

Vardanega, P. J. and Bolton, M. D. (2011). Strength mobilisation in clays and silts. Canadian Geotechnical Journal 48, No. 10, 1485-1503, https://doi.org/10.1139/t11-052.

Road Map

  • Soil deformation

  • Inclined retaining piles 

  • and more ...

Contact

send us an email if you want to learn more about the software
or to get a copy of the trial version.

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