Foundation Design and Analysis
Foundation Design Software
SkyCiv Foundation Design provides comprehensive solution for concrete foundation design. Model various foundation types and perform comprehensive checks to verify structural adequacy and overall stability.
Visualize foundation geometry and reinforcement in 3D, review shear and moment diagrams, and explore finite element analysis results for supported foundation types. Design to American, Australian, Canadian, and European standards, with detailed calculation reports and clear documentation.
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Foundation design software that runs the full workflow
Easy and powerful FEA
Explore foundation behaviour with finite element analysis, visualizing soil pressure and Wood-Armer moments directly in the model for supported foundation types.
Integrated 3D visualization
Visualize foundation geometry, reinforcement, and analysis results in 3D. See your foundation model and results update as you make changes.
Detailed calculation reports
Generate detailed reports with equations, diagrams, design checks, code references, and results, clearly documenting your foundation design.
Product features
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Capabilities for modelling and designing foundation structures.
Advanced Finite Element Analysis
SkyCiv Foundation Design uses an advanced FEA solver to accurately model foundation behavior:
Visualize soil pressures: View the distribution of soil pressure across the foundation to understand how loads are transferred to the supporting soil.
Review Wood-Armer moments: Analyze Wood-Armer moment results from the FEA to understand critical bending behaviour across the foundation.
- Explore FEA results in 3D: Interactively visualize analysis results directly on the foundation model for a clearer view of structural behaviour.
Shear and moment diagrams: Generate shear and moment diagrams using the Strip Average Method, with results derived directly from the FEA analysis.
Understand foundation behaviour: Use detailed analysis results to identify critical areas and make informed design decisions.
Full Calculation Reports
Understand every step of your foundation design with detailed, transparent calculation reporting.
- Code-referenced calculations: Relevant code chapters, checks, assumptions, and failure criteria are clearly documented for ACI 318, EN 1992-1-1, EN 1997-1, AS 3600, and CSA standards.
Detailed soil analysis: Review the calculations behind soil pressure, stability, and other foundation checks.
- Pass/fail summaries: Quickly identify the status of each design check with clear results.
Professional documentation: Add project name, company, designer, project ID and client details to the report.
Concrete Pad Footing Design
Complete foundation checks with clear, visual results at every stage of the design.
Stability checks: Verify soil bearing, eccentricity, overturning, and sliding safety.
Strength checks: Check shear, flexure, reinforcement, and bearing capacity.
Reinforcement detailing: Check flexural reinforcement, dowel bars, and required reinforcement detailing.
Geometry checks: Verify footing dimensions and key geometric requirements.
3D visualization: Visualize the footing geometry and reinforcement in an interactive 3D model.
Detailed calculation reports: Review step-by-step calculations, design checks, code references, and clear pass/fail results.
Pile Foundation Design
Evaluate geotechnical capacity and structural performance across multiple soil layers with detailed checks, 3D visualization, and reporting.
Soil profile inputs: Define multiple soil layers to accurately represent the site ground conditions.
Geotechnical capacity checks: Calculate end-bearing, skin-friction, and lateral soil capacities for the pile foundation.
Strength checks: Verify axial, shear, and flexural capacity of the piles.
3D visualization: Visualize pile geometry, arrangement, and reinforcement in an interactive 3D model.
Detailed calculation reports: Review step-by-step calculations, design checks, code references, and clear pass/fail results.
Strip Footing Design
Check stability, strength, and reinforcement with clear 3D visualization and detailed calculation reports
- Code-referenced calculations: Relevant code chapters, checks, assumptions, and failure criteria are clearly documented for ACI 318, EN 1992-1-1, EN 1997-1, AS 3600, and CSA standards.
Soil bearing analysis: Review the calculations behind soil pressure, stability, and other foundation checks.
- Pass/fail summaries: Quickly identify the status of each design check with clear results.
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DESIGN STANDARDS
Structural design codes
Comprehensive support for local and international standards covering a wide range of foundation types and design requirements
| Category | Supported Codes |
|---|---|
| Pad Footing | ACI 318 (2014, 2019) / AS 3600 (2009, 2018) / EC-2. EC-7 (2004) / CSA A23.3 (2014) |
| Combined Footing | ACI 318 (2014, 2019) / AS 3600 (2009, 2018) / EC-2. EC-7 (2004) / CSA A23.3 (2014) |
| Pile Foundation | ACI 318 (2014) / AS2159:2009, AS 3600 (2009, 2018) / EC-2. EC-7 (2004) |
| Strip Footing | ACI 318 (2019) / AS 3600 (2018) |
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testimonials
Trusted by thousands
The ease of use and the presentation of the results are both awesome. I have had ongoing interaction with the support team and everyone is excellent.
Mitch Frumkin
CEO OF KIPCON
It is used for various civil and mechanical engineering courses and the students love it. We are happy with the continuous updates to SkyCiv as well, highly recommended.
Dr Kenneth R. Leitch
Assoc. Prof. at Texas A&M
It was easily the most intuitive package available to learn; it is particularly easy to build the 3D model and define nodes, members, supports, materials, sections, then apply loads & combinations.
Stuart Agars
Managing Director of Struct-Sure Limited
SkyCiv has been a great tool to help efficiently and clearly document and update design results for a member of a small company with multiple responsibilities.
Lydia Fahrenkrug
Engineer at MT Solar
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Intuitive Interface
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Comprehensive Design Code Support
Our software supports a comprehensive array of steel, wood, and concrete design codes including AISC, EN, AISI, NDS, AS, and CSA.
API Technology
SkyCiv is a customised solution featuring seamless integrations, easy implementations, automated reports and a scalable design and architecture.
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SkyCiv is a customised solution featuring seamless integrations, easy implementations, automated reports and a scalable design and architecture.
