User manual for AMRetain™

AMRetain™ is a design software developed solely for the design of steel sheet pile structures using ArcelorMittal's range. AMRetain is a quite versatile design software, based on a Subgrade Reaction Model (also known as Soil Structure Interaction Model, or SSIM). The SSIM is an excellent compromise between quite simple design methods such as the Limit Equilibrium Method (LEM), and more complex ones such as the Finite Elements Method (FEM).

AMRetain does not replace ArcelorMittal’s free software Prosheet, which is based on a LEM method, and which can be used for simple preliminary designs. AMRetain also adds the option to design a sheet pile structure based on the European standards (Eurocodes).

ArcelorMittal's aim is to provide to the industry a valuable, user-friendly, and state-of-the-art software to design cost-effective steel sheet pile retaining walls. 

AMRetain is available at a reasonable price which covers only the cost of its distribution and technical support. The intent is not to compete with existing commercial software. The target are civil and geotechnical engineers with a basic knowledge of design of retaining structures, but who do not deal on a regular basis with the design of complex retaining structures, for which a SSIM is definitely more adequate than a LEM approach.

AMRetain allows designing cantilever walls, as well as single and multi-anchored (or propped) retaining walls. Furthermore, it can also calculate a double sheet pile wall with one or more anchor / strut level(s).

A key feature is the possibility to simulate the different construction phases, which is not possible with standard LEM based software.