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TerraBrains alongside specialist workflows

One project workflow alongsidethe specialist tools your work requires.

Geotechnical teams may combine specialised tools for logs, settlement, piles, slopes and finite elements. TerraBrains connects field records, lab evidence, 213 code-checked analyses, 47 lab tests, a three-dimensional model and signed reports in one project workflow. Base plans and optional engine packs are priced separately.

Workflow context

Choose the scope before choosing the software.

Named packages are illustrative examples of specialist software categories, not feature-parity claims. Check current vendor documentation for their scope and pricing. TerraBrains' supported workflows and validation evidence are documented on this site.

Borehole logs & data management
Bentley gINT / OpenGround / HoleBASE
✓Offline field capture → live logs, AGS 4.x / DIGGS 2.x native
Consolidation settlement
Rocscience Settle3
✓IS 8009 · elastic + 1-D consolidation, multilayer & time-rate
Laterally-loaded piles
Ensoft LPILE / GROUP / APILE
✓11-family p-y (Matlock/Reese/API/Rollins/rock) FDM · axial P-Δ beam-column amplification · pushover & M-φ cracked-EI · lateral groups (Brown/AASHTO p-multipliers) · axial t-z/q-z · drilled shaft · rock socket · IS/EC7/AASHTO
Slope stability
Rocscience Slide2 / GeoStudio SLOPE/W
✓Bishop · Spencer · Morgenstern-Price + a 3-D extension
Seismic site response & liquefaction
SHAKE / DeepSoil
✓Automated equivalent-linear (SHAKE-type) strain iteration + G/Gmax–damping curve library (Vucetic-Dobry / Seed-Idriss / Darendeli) · SH transfer function · nonlinear Masing time-domain · RVT stochastic (Vs Monte-Carlo) · PM4Sand cyclic · design spectrum · 3 liquefaction methods + LPI
2-D finite-element (seepage / consolidation / deformation)
Rocscience RS2 / RS3
✓Advanced FE Suite (Store add-on) — a 3-D elasto-plastic continuum footing bearing BVP (square/circular/rectangular, 20-node hex, viscoplastic Mohr-Coulomb, load–settlement + q_ult with a 3-D settlement-bowl viewer, Skempton/Vesić cross-check) AND the 2-D Hardening-Soil/Mohr-Coulomb footing BVP, transient unsaturated (Richards + van Genuchten) seepage, slab-FE, FE confined + unconfined seepage, strength-reduction slope, FE bearing
Deep-excavation & embedded walls
DeepEX / FREW / WALLAP
✓Deep Excavation Suite (Store add-on) — staged subgrade-reaction wall SSI with locked-in props, EC7 DA1-C2, non-uniform Boussinesq (NAVFAC) surcharges + passive berm, ground-settlement damage (Clough-O’Rourke) + FE staged excavation
Pavement design
AASHTOWare Pavement-ME + standalone tools
✓Pavement Suite (Store add-on) — IRC 37/58, AASHTO-93, Pavement-ME, FAARFIELD, full axle-load spectra (NALS) + traffic wander
Reporting & deliverables
Word / Excel by hand — no audit trail
✓AI-drafted with citations and review flags, SHA-256 audit-chained & signed
Workflow fit

Keep a clear record across the workflows TerraBrains supports.

Specialised tools

Teams may use specialised software where a project's required method, geometry or reviewer requirement falls outside TerraBrains' documented scope.

Project-specific

Tool choice depends on the required method, validation evidence, project geometry, reviewer expectations and commercial terms.

One dataset

Base plans cover field, lab, the base analysis catalogue, the 3-D model, AI features by tier, and signed reports. Premium engine packs are optional add-ons in the Store.

Scope limits

Where specialist software remains appropriate.

These boundaries are product limits, not an invitation to force a project into the wrong workflow.

—General free-form 3-D nonlinear FEM for arbitrary geometry + staged construction (PLAXIS 3D, RS3) — we DO ship a 3-D elasto-plastic continuum FE for foundation bearing-capacity BVPs (square/circular/rectangular footings; 20-node hex, viscoplastic Mohr-Coulomb, with a 3-D settlement-bowl viewer) plus a 2-D plane-strain elasto-plastic continuum, but not a general-purpose 3-D staged-construction modeller. Keep your specialist seat for arbitrary 3-D geometry and excavation sequencing.
—Coupled DYNAMIC effective-stress liquefaction inside a full 2-D/3-D continuum (PM4Sand-in-FEM) for flow-failure case studies — we ship single-element PM4Sand cyclic response, a nonlinear 1-D Masing site-response solver and RVT stochastic response, but not liquefaction coupled into a 2-D/3-D dynamic mesh.
—Bespoke numerical work your reviewers specifically mandate in a named package — TerraBrains covers common daily workflows, not every research edge case.

Start with one supported project workflow.

Start free, import an AGS export, and run supported settlement, pile and slope workflows from the same project record — then review and sign the report. One month free, card on file, cancel anytime.

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