The simplest route to professional pile design

From input to verification in minutes, code compliant and efficient.

100 % cloud based, usable in any browser, anywhere, any time.
Excel compatible and made for designing many piles at once.
Professional PDF reports, ready for documentation and verification.
Vertical and horizontal loads, all handled in one solution.

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Product tour

Take a first look inside the platform

Curious? Our technical director walks you through the interface and shows how easily you can adjust the calculation settings.

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Tutorial 01 · Project setup

How it works

Four steps to a finished verification

A gear representing the calculation settings — Step 01

Define the calculation settings

Ready in seconds, with the right code and parameters

Choose the code you want to design to, EA-Pfähle or DIN 1054, and leave the rest to the system.

Sensible defaults and clear options keep you in control and get you to a first result without detours.

Isometric block of ground showing three different soil layers — Step 02

Create soil profiles

Your ground conditions, thought through digitally and easy to read

Define precise soil profiles directly in the browser. A few clicks set layers, water table, friction angle and more.

Intuitive colour coding and input aids keep you oriented, even in complex ground.

Pile in the ground with force arrows for shaft friction and base resistance — Step 03

Determine external capacity

Loads, geometry, resistances, simply calculated

Place piles beneath your load points and choose type, spacing and diameter.

The software calculates shaft friction, base resistance and settlement automatically, including verifications and optimisation of the pile length.

Section through a pile with the reinforcement cage visible — Step 04

Check internal capacity (optional)

Safe down to the detail, reinforcement sized exactly

For all relevant actions the system calculates the required longitudinal and shear reinforcement of the pile.

That way every pile meets the structural requirements, under bending, shear and moments alike.

The calculation core

Why piledesigner.io redefines pile design

Hear from Dr. Ingo Hylla, the author of the piledesigner.io calculation core, why conventional software can only calculate piles in groups, and how his approach makes it possible for the first time to design every single pile on its own vertical and horizontal loads.

Dr.-Ing. Ingo Hylla · Calculation core

Features

Everything you expect from a modern pile design app.

No more manual steps in outdated desktop applications.

Multi load calculation

Manage and calculate several load cases at once, saving time and improving accuracy.

Flexible soil profile management

Create individual soil profiles and adapt them freely to the specific conditions of your project.

Dynamic capacity calculation

Determine external and internal pile capacity taking all relevant loads and ground conditions into account.

Advanced reinforcement analysis

Calculate the required reinforcement from the specific loads on each pile, for maximum stability.

Clear graphical output

Get graphical representations of the design results that make it easy to check stability and other key parameters.

Streamlined workflow

Work in an interface built to make your design process as efficient and straightforward as possible.

Projects

Tens of thousands of piles a year are already designed with piledesigner.io

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“With piledesigner.io we were able to design every pile for its own project conditions, precisely and in the browser, with no installation, fast and accurate. That saves material and CO₂, and it brings real efficiency into the design process.”

Daniel Bacon

Technical director, gbc engineers GmbH

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Did not find an answer to your question? Contact our support team by email and we will get back to you as quickly as possible.

What is the difference between external and internal pile capacity?

External capacity describes how much load the ground takes through shaft friction and base resistance. Internal capacity checks whether the pile itself, concrete and reinforcement, can carry that load.

What input does a soil profile require?

As a minimum you need the borehole location, the layering, soil types, friction angle φ, cohesion c_u, unit weight γ or γ' and, where relevant, q_c values.

What does “base bearing allowed” mean for a soil layer?

The option decides whether a pile may terminate in that layer. It matters for optimising the pile length.

How does automatic design to EA-Pfähle or DIN 1054 work?

Depending on the code you select, the software draws on the matching tables in the background and applies friction and end bearing values correctly on its own.

How is the permissible settlement taken into account?

You can set a maximum settlement for the project, 5 mm for example. The software then checks whether a pile carries the load at that settlement.

How does piledesigner.io handle differing soil profiles between two boreholes?

By default the profiles you entered are used. A kriging based interpolation for a closer estimate in between is planned.

What does R_d mean in the verification?

R_d is the design resistance of the pile. It is the sum of shaft friction and base resistance divided by a safety factor.

What is the difference between E_k and E_d?

E_k is the characteristic, that is the real, load. E_d is the design load including the safety factor and is what the capacity verification uses.

Can I design several piles at one load point?

Yes. You set the number, diameter and spacing of the piles per load point, and the software calculates load distribution, resistance and settlement.

What is a verification group for?

Verification groups combine load points that are to be designed identically or similarly, for instance where ground conditions repeat.

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